I went the
exhibition Infinity Structures:
Paradoxical Spaces by Robert Gero.
Gero holds his MFA in sculpture, and for this exhibit, he constructed a
structure in a room in the California Nanosytems Institute at UCLA. The exhibition included the Styrofoam-like
structure with the lights dimmed and a video projection by Benjamin Lein
playing.
Upon
entering this exhibition, I knew this was noting like I had ever experienced
before. The artist described the work as
an infinity structure, or one that “there is a stable exterior and an
infinitely expanding interior.” Here is
where the paradox arises with the interior having an infinite interior. Gero also said such a structure transforms a
static space into a dynamic space.
I can see
why Professor Vesna recommended this event to us. I enjoyed the immersion of the intersection
between mathematics and art. The inside
of the structure in particular felt infinite because you could see the white
bars going in so many different ways in the three dimensional space. I have always thought of infinity as such an
abstract mathematical concept and a concept that I never thought about outside
of my math courses. Robert Gero opened my
eyes to the beauty and intrigue of something that I once thought of as so
dull.
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