Concept across media - Rachael Rossin's Peak Performances (2018)

Peak Performance (2018) , is an exhibition of sculpture and painting by Rachel Rossin. Using virtual reality environments, this exhibition "recasts the human body as a digital phantom represented across different media". [1] This idea of a concept, specifically form, across media within one exhibition is an idea I'm interested in my own practice.

In Peak Performance, Rossin explores the "disembodied consciousness in digital space: the seductive fantasy of a body freed from the limitations of anatomy and physics, the potential for abuse or disfigurement, and the inevitability of entropic deterioration." [2]

In the show Rossin combine three bodies of work: "oil paintings depicting virtual environments, melted plexiglass sculpture, and aquarium-like augmented reality computers suspended in oil." [3] All of the works derive from "Rossin’s survey of virtual spaces with and without physicality, and draw from her own experiences escaping and augmenting subjectivity through a merger with technology." [4]

All images sourced from: Rachel Rossin, Peak Performance, 2018, http://ssiiggnnaall.com/exhibitions/rossin2/gallery.php

vivarium , aquarium --- "virtual reality slices" [5]

What I'm interested is how acrylic or plexiglass can be utilised as a ground that internally allows layering between different works within an install. How physically they may not be touching - but they affect one another viewing - or not - dependant on the viewers location in space.

Citations

[1] - Signal Gallery, "Rachel Rossin: Peak Performance", 2017, accessed September 2021, http://ssiiggnnaall.com/exhibitions/rossin2/

[2] - [4] - Signal Gallery, "Rachel Rossin: Peak Performance", 2017, accessed September 2021, http://ssiiggnnaall.com/exhibitions/rossin2/Rossin_PeakPerformance_PressRelease.pdf

[5] - Artforum, "Rachel Rossin talks about her life and work", November 2017, accessed September 2021, https://www.artforum.com/video/rachel-rossin-talks-about-her-life-and-work-71956