Close your eyes. Imagine taking the elevator and upon stepping out enter an environment which will question the boundaries between the virtual and the world as we perceive it. How, one might ask, is this possible? It is what the artists and everyone behind the world’s premier contemporary art fair have accomplished …
Enter a room which resembles a lounge and experience the first zone – the virtual. Plasma screens light up the walls of the room with projected images, and visitors may explore the open room – even change the modules dispersed throughout the room. Now, leave the virtual zone.
Enter a new dimension of purity. This is a space for visitors to “cleanse his or her palate,” one might say. A quiet space invokes reflection on the previous zone which one has just left. This moment of quiet reflection between the virtual and the second zone will allow the visitor to experience a rebirth from one zone to the next; no stimulation will be present in this space.
From afar, “A Time to Bloom” seems to be suspended in the sky like a cloud, just like time.
Enter the contemplation zone – a fully enclosed and soundproof room where the video artwork that is displayed allows one to transcend one’s own physical self to experience peace and serenity. A column of light separate the contemplation zone from the “cleansing areas” which surround it, and in the evening a blue light emanates from these columns.
Leave the contemplation zone and step into another space which offers the visitor another area of quite reflection to consider the last zone without further stimulation.
Enter the garden zone, and look at the natural world with a sense of rebirth and wonder. This zone is semi-open and semi-closed through which light is filtered by wood-slates.
Experience a place where the lines of spectator and artist are blurred, and embrace the artist inside of yourself.
