Everywhere I Am Not Total Darkness Reigns, 2017, steel, aluminum, wood, plastic, 100x100x269cm, Commission for the Sea Art Festival 2017
Everywhere I Am Not Total Darkness Reigns A tourist telescope erected
in isolation on the beach stirs our curiosity, because it can open up our eyes
to what lies beyond our field of vision. Erica Lai is
interested in discovering the historical and territorial relevance of an
individual, and explores her fascinations through the universal visual
experience of landscape. The tourist telescope Lai installed on Dadaepo Beach
offers an experience of a new temporal and spatial frame that deviates from
everyday occurrences, while stimulating a different sense by visually bringing
close a distant and prohibited area within a space considered safe. The
phrase ¡°Everywhere I Am Not Total Darkness Reigns¡± by the French philosopher
Gilles Deleuze is inscribed in the telescope, hinting at the idea of the visual connection and physical disconnection
of space as an analogy to the repetition of the opening and closing of space
between the ocean and land due to the rise and fall of the tide.
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