Exhibition
Coralie Vogelaar Finissage
28 Jul 2019
Event times
finissage 28 july: 16.00 – 18.00
danceperformance 17.00 – 17.30
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- Oetewalerstraat 73
- Amsterdam
North Holland - 1093 MB
- Netherlands
Travel Information
- 22, 37, 41
- Muiderpoort station
- tram 3, tram 7, tram 9
Join us for the finissage of Coralie Vogelaar's exhibition "Arranging, Moving, Rotating, Packing." During the finissage there will be a performance with dancer Marjolein Vogels.
About
Coralie Vogelaar is a research-based interdisciplinary artist. Her work consists of systematically conducted studies that reveal the mechanisms within our visual culture, in relation to the human body. Taking computer sciences as her inspiration, she explores the borderland between computer and man, showing the communication between the two and the new ways of seeing and behaving that can emerge from this. Why is it that we find one image more appealing than another? How do we arrive at these preferences, and what is their impact?
For ‘Arranging, Moving, Rotating, Packing’ Vogelaar collected an archive of 3D scans of classical sculptures from art history. The poses of these human figures from sculptural traditions form a big part of our collective memory. This archive became the starting point for the installation that will be shown at BRADWOLFF PROJECTS. Vogelaar applied an optimal-packing algorithm to this database of sculptures; an algorithm that is normally used in the packaging industry to calculate the most efficient way of packaging spatial objects in a container. By using this algorithm, she was able to find poses that could be perfectly intertwined with one another. The resulting images were translated into various media, and are now presented in the gallery as a total installation.
