The Quilted Parallax

The Quilted Parallax (March 3 - 20, 2010)
an installation by Liz Ensz & Lea Bertucci
chashama Window Space, 266 West 37th Street
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between 7th and 8th Avenues, A/C/E/1/2/3 to 34th Street, N/R/Q/W/7/shuttle to Times Square; M16, M34 buses to 8th Ave, M10, M20 to 36th St.

The Quilted Parallax
an installation by Liz Ensz & Lea Bertucci

March 3 - 20, 2010

Opening Reception:
Wednesday, March 3rd, 6 - 9p

Open hours:
Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays 1p - 9p
Thursdays 3p - 7p

The Quilted Parallax merges the visual vocabulary of artists Lea Bertucci and Liz Ensz to create a shifting space that is defined by light and embellished by pattern. In Bertucci's photography and installations, light is used as an active architectural force that both describes and distorts space, while Ensz has focused on patterned imagery and transforming the textile into architecture.

This collaborative installation combines a shared interest in perception, architecture, space, and light. It is an intervention and deliberate visual contrast to the surrounding area; a contemplative space that functions as an abstract altar, a visual sanctuary from the advertising and frenetic pace of midtown Manhattan.

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http://lizenszgallery.blogspot.com/ | lizensz@gmail.com details Within The Quilted Parallax, a series of uneven projection planes made of translucent mylar paper create a semi-circular space. These screens are architectural in nature with projections that are abstracted by multiple layers of cut out paper. Layered patterns of classic geometric quilting designs are cut, drawn, and collaged onto the mylar and emerge on the screens by way of additive light.

Slides and video of architectural surfaces, windows and sunlight are projected onto the screens, resulting in a constantly shifting and elusive architectural space. Moving light at once describes and obscures space to create a shifting architecture that is calm and slow yet mutable, and reveals multiple aspects of the installation. The perceived impermanence of the structure and the transparent collage of pattern and superimposed light images are ghostly and hypnotic, and allude to a supernatural realm. about The Quilted Parallax