BREATHING– LIGHT

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Exhibit info: BREATHING- LIGHT | January 19 - March 10, 2024

                  Oregon Center for Contemporary Art | Portland, OR

Review: "Soak up the sun: Georgie Friedman," Oregon ArtsWatch, Feb 6, 2024

BREATHING– LIGHT is an experiential video and sound installation that ponders the enormity of the intangible: elements too small to see – too large to touch. 

The complex movements within the Sun’s corona are visible as they rotate across three large, curved forms. Based upon how visitors navigate between the forms or position themselves in the space, the sculptural environment visually connects or separates. The shrinking and slicing of the Sun’s surface creates a scale shift. Either the Sun has shrunk to thirty-two feet wide,* or we’ve become approximately 20 Earths – 836,985,600 ft – tall. Simultaneously, volcanic smoke and formerly-tiny dust particles, encircle the space creating a connective atmosphere.

The elements of the Sun, on the Earth, and in our veins, can at times feel disparate, but when considered together, they are the tiny and immense things that connect us all. 

DIMENSIONS

Site footprint: 36' x 35'

Walls: 12' to 17'

Curves: length | height change

1. •13' | 35" to 7' 10"
   

2. •16' | 6' to 22"
   

3. •13' | 8' to 32"
   

* The sun is 864,400 miles in diameter: about 109 times that of the Earth.

BREATHING- LIGHT, installation views, Oregon Contemporary, 2024

1. •Georgie Friedman researched, compiled, and animated over 24,000 photographs of the Sun to create the videos in this exhibit.
   

2. •The Sun images are courtesy of NASA/SDO (Solar Dynamics Observatory) and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams.
   

3. •The imagery is from December 2023 at the wavelength of 193 Ångstroms.
   

4. •Footage of the volcanic smoke and dust particles was filmed by Georgie Friedman.
   

5. •The soundscape was created in collaboration with Radio Sloan.