Tomasz Sekular: Seascapes
A playful reorientation and combination of light and video art engaging with the Seascapes-genre and screen space.
Seascapes (2023) juxtaposes elements of light, video, and painting to create a sensory and synaesthetic media-art installation within the gallery space, producing a rhythmic movement of color, light, and water vapor, coalescing into a constantly evolving and shapeshifting landscape emerging from a projection onto a liquid and gaseous surface. This strange screen serves as the canvas for a volumetric projection inspired by the color palette and visceral compositions of J.M.W. Turner’s (1775-1851) seascape paintings, where an experiential form of looking at painting and light takes center stage.
The key ingredient of the work lies in the viewer's sensory experience and the dynamic interaction between the materiality of light and projection, sound and color, the image and it’s metamorphosis.
The unrelenting dispersal, motion and diffraction of photons, simultaneously constructing and deconstructing the image and pictorial space appearing ambiguously and periodically: A process of erasure and genesis that convey the luminosity, texture and fabric of light in projection yet allow the rhythm and movement of the moving image to act upon experience via sight and sound.
Seascapes strives to create a liminal space in the gallery, where light and projection is transformed into a vibrant and tumultuous entity, reinterpreting the historical genre of the seascape painting through all senses, merging the mediums of light and media art, music, and painting by playfully disrupting the notion of screen space.
The soundscape of the work is crafted by sound artist and musician Willie Budsko.
