PRECEDENTS
Venice Biennale 2012: Unmediated Democracy Demands Unmediated Space
Using this exhibition as inspiration we were able to further out understanding of how image interacts with fabric and ways to go about it to achieve a successful display. The distance of fabrics, the quality of the picture, the meaning behind the display. It all played into the final manifestation of Double Vision.
Holotronica
Holotronica’s Hologauze heavily influenced the way we went about graphical display. Although the quality of there screens are more about being invisible, rather than to be tactile, the way the viewer interacts with it is one and the same. With Double Vision, the viewer is invited to touch, feel and experience the space is had created. With Hologauze the user is invited to interact in a more mental sense, simply by being amazed and moreover, shocked at what they are seeing. Although using invisible screens would have been very interesting, they wouldn’t have been the right decision for what we set out to display.
Waterness
We used waterness as a focal point, taking inspiration where we could from how the artist went about art curation. They started by creating a mood board, based around the sense of mystery, so we created a board exploring how we wanted the space to be experienced. The main attraction of the exhibition isn’t the exhibition itself, more the fact that those who participate in viewing become part of the art themselves. Similarly when someone interacts with Double Vision they leave there mark, becoming part of something infinitely bigger than just an exhibition. Every touch, every brush of the shoulder, minor impacts are what truly create the display. The journey from start to finish isn’t complete without user impact. Then the artist used thin linen sheets combined with the different drawings, that are supposed to symbolize the ambiguous feeling of not knowing what is in each layer.​ We followed similarly and experimented with materials representational of the age of the journey taker.
