NEWART centre – Centro de arte digital y tecnológico en Reus

Dmitry Gelfand, Sant Petersburg, 1974 i Evelina Domnitch Minsk, 1972.

Dmitry Gelfand i Evelina Domnitch Minsk

The duo creates installations and performances that merge physical phenomena with unusual philosophical practices. Current discoveries, particularly regarding wave phenomena, are used by the artists to investigate questions of perception and perpetuity. These investigations are notable because the scientific image of the world, which serves as a basis for contemporary thought, still cannot encompass the unrecordable functioning of consciousness.

After rejecting the use of recording and fixation media, Domnitch and Gelfand’s installations exist as constantly transforming phenomena offered for observation. Because these rarely seen phenomena occur directly in front of the observer without mediation, they often serve to greatly expand the observer’s sensory envelope. The immediacy of this experience allows the observer to transcend the illusory distinction between scientific discovery and perceptual expansion.

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Orbiedre, 2017

Installation in collaboration with LIGO and William Basinski.

A dark vortex in the middle of a basin filled with water emits rotating prismatic bursts of light. Similar to a radiant ergosphere surrounding a rotating black hole, Orbiedre evokes the relativistic and quantum interpretation of gravity, whose reconciliation is essential to unravel the behavior of black holes and the origins of the cosmos. Descending into the eye of the vortex, a white laser beam reaches an impassive singularity that projects a rotating circular shadow onto the floor of the basin. The singularity lies at the bottom of a depression on the surface of the water—the crown of the vortex—which acts as a concave lens focusing the laser beam along the horizon of the “black hole” shadow. Apparently, the light is swallowed by the black hole according to general relativity, but it leaks through as predicted by quantum theory.

With the generous support of LIGO, Isabel De Sena, and Fulcrum Arts.