Wayfinding
a sculptural installation by
Marcia Huyer
November 10 - December 20, 2006
Marcia Huyer works with Tyvek fabric to build air-supported sculptures, which balloon and expand, inhabiting the gallery space. These installations are derived from her own interests in the perceptions of space, and the dialogue and understanding that one's body has with, and through, materials and structures.
The installations confront the viewer physically, exploring ideas of phenomenology, haptic perceptions, and the function and role of sculpture and architecture. Other subjects from which her work stems are modern architecture, responsive architecture, Gaston Bachelard's Poetics of Space, and investigating the need for creating utopias.
During an exhibition she deconstructs both the idea of the gallery's space and the viewer's expected role and participation within it. Through Tyvek, air, and light she explores boundaries between the organic/architectural, the domestic/ industrial, the imagined/real, and the body/ technology.
Her inflated structures have developed from exploring the interior space (ventilation systems) of buildings to exploring exterior space. The interior is now revealed through light and the viewer's imagination. Contextually she is exploring themes related to modern and responsive architecture and the material language that sculpture and architecture share.
November 10 - December 16, 2006
