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A piece I admire is called Situation Room by Marc Fornes, made in 2014. It is a series of 20 large, pink, perforated circular structures that surround visitors to form an installation (the piece is supplemented with a soundtrack made by Jana Winderen). The structure is one continuous form made up of the individual aluminum spheres, each of increasing incremental diameters, which connect at certain joints and are smoothed over. These forms are generated using boolean mathematical operations. I admire how many different elements are used to create a sense of space, through the physical tunnels created, the lighting shining through the holes, and the soundtrack that is acoustically amplified.
I feel that the artist’s sensibilities are definitely reflected in this piece; Fornes has always focused on known versus unknown, and creating environments which can be both comforting or smothering. This piece allows viewers to explore, and prompts questions about what constitutes a space, and what factors make a place feel real or imagined.
https://theverymany.com/14-storefront/