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THE IMMERSIVE INSTALLATIONS OF PIPILOTTI RIST:
eration and regeneration: through the natural landscape, the human body and the heavens above.
Pixel Forest and Worry Will transform the Museum’s central Cullinan Hall from March 12 to September 4, 2023. About the Exhibition, Pipilotti Rist has been among contemporary art’s chief innovators since the mid1980s. Her work has pushed the boundaries between video and the built environment, exploiting new technologies to create installations that fuse the natural world with the electronic sublime. Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest and Worry Will Vanish also demonstrate Rist’s profound engagement in what it means to be human in the cosmic cycle of gen -
Pixel Forest (2016), which has been custom fabricated by Rist and her collaborator Kaori Kuwabara to span the vast space of Cullinan Hall, consists of 3,000 LED lights encased in resin spheres, and suspended on cables from the ceiling. Each light is controlled by a video signal so that the “forest” constantly changes, sometimes shifting in a staccato rhythm and sometimes in sinuous waves of color. Visitors can stroll throughout this environment, which Rist describes as “a digital image that has exploded in space.” She explains further: “I want to clarify that everything we look at is also always just organized light, which helps as I dissolve architecture and forms. I am interested in combining nature and technology; these are not two different things.” Installation view of Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest and Worry Will Vanish at the MFAH in 2016. Worry Will Vanish (2014), a two-channel video that runs in ten-minute cycles,
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Affiliate Host will be projected onto the south and west walls of Cullinan Hall, taking viewers into a fantastic dreamscape where the body and nature become one. Rist’s filmed and manipulated footage is immediately enchanting, as glistening, dew-laced leaves give way to images of the body and its interior, vast oceans, and a starry sky. The accompanying soundtrack, created in collaboration with ID TK Anders Guggisberg, offers a lyrical and resonantly textured soundscape, heightening the video’s aura of wonderstruck celebration. Visitors are invited to recline on pillows and lose themselves in Rist’s cosmos.
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