Fading
By: Sophie Laly
Please note, this year’s theme for Light Up Lancaster is all about the fleeting/ephemeral, so great of you can bear this in mind when providing copy.
FADING # is a video installation featuring the appearance of a house, projected on a scale of 1 in a landscape. The projection takes place at dusk, right in the landscape, whatever it may be: trees, bushes… domesticated or not. Twilight reveals the subtle metamorphosis of the landscape: light fades, night falls, the house appears, and disappears again at sunrise.
Like a dowser, or a gold digger, Sophie Laly is constantly on the lookout for new architectures to locate and reveal.
French artist, Sophie Laly, questions the way we look at nature and the landscape. Her aim with Fading is to re-establish or find the right balance between the visual objects she has created and the spaces in which they unfold. And through FADING# intervention in nature itself offers a new dimension to the landscape.
This shift in focus affects the landscape, which is no longer seen as a painting contemplated from a distance, but as an environment in which the viewer is immersed. They are no longer in front of the landscape, but inside it for the duration of a night.