Editor’s Pick: ‘Intangible Forms’ at Artechouse DC

metroweekly.com:

Intangible Forms is a series of luminescent installations, with nine currently filling the entire underground gallery space in D.CAside from the lights and lasers, the exhibition is intended as “a meditative soundscape” inspired by the powerful quietude of Shinto shrines in the mountains of Japan.Set up in ARTECHOUSE’s main room, the centerpiece installation, simply titled “intangible #form,” is a continuous light show of kinetic red lasers that alternately move in wavelike unison and then splinter off to form distinct geometric shapes — all in a manner, to quote the official description, “[that] invites visitors to pause, reflect, and feel a connection to all living beings of the past, present, and future.”“I’ve been trying to generate virtual consciousness and, in extension, virtual life in this work, triggering a deeper sense of humanity in ourselves,” the artist is quoted as saying in the release.Highlights among the other installations include:“intangible #umbra” in which “the absence of light and shadows acts as a dimensional extension of the visuals that are seen here.”“dynamic light statics,” set up with five monitors displaying various lines of light that obey physical constraints.“power of one #empty” shows how a line and bright light can create and define space, and also “aims to re-create emptiness in two-dimensions.”“power of one #surface” plays up the effect of light on one-way mirrors, or those used for police lineups and in interrogation rooms, as seen when two lasers hit two rotating as well as two stationary one-way mirrors.“power of #extrude” explores the interplay between a single laser projector and a motorized apparatus with 10 individual strips of one-way mirrors.In addition, ARTECHOUSE’s XR Bar.