Looking for Malevich

The installation consists of six viewfinders – pivoted devices with distinctive apertures to capture views – and their corresponding geometric targets. The devices, scattered at designated positions in the exhibition hall, are piloted by the viewers in searching for target geometric forms that are also distributed around the space, and thus they bear the name Form-Finders. From gigantic figures descending from the ceiling to 2D graphics on the wall and columns, the geometric targets, take different forms and colors while all rooted in Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (1878-1935), the Russian cubist painter’s masterpieces. When the viewer sees a geometric target through the aperture of a Form-Finder, perspective would either balance-out or enhance the physical distortion of the target so that its appearance conforms with the shape of the Form-Finder’s aperture. The last Form-Finder redirects the viewer’s sight to a target that appears on top of the viewer’s own head, and thus making the target the viewer himself. This set of devices would perhaps allow the viewers to perceive a deeper, or more subtle, understanding of the site.