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Subtitle: Gabriel Sierra : Kunsthalle Zürich
Contributors: Kunsthalle Zürich
Publisher: Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Berlin, Germany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 39
ISBN-13: 9783943514872
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Exhibitions; Architecture; Installations (Art); Psychological aspects
Other titles: Gabriel Sierra :; Gabriel Sierra
Description: We are almost constantly surrounded by architecture, but we barely perceive it. Yet it has a major impact on our thought and actions--sometimes obviously, but usually unconsciously. The Colombian artist Gabriel Sierra is interested in precisely this psychological dimension of architecture. He aims to create an experiment that explores the intricate relation in between reality and perception. After all, built spaces are repositories for ideas, fears, and convictions; they are full of ambitions, traces, and future experiences, and possess multiple layers of time. Hardly any other experience demonstrates this as strikingly as déjà-vu, when we witness a moment as if it had already occurred. During a moment of déjà-vu, the present is transported backward in time; in it, the past, the future, and the present merge into a magical second that is both euphoric and unsettling.
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland, September 22-November 17, 2015.

Accompanying pamphlet includes interview with the artist and publication information.