OASIS: Come to Life

Interactive installation in collaboration with Emma Strebel
 Project Space of New York University Abu Dhabi
October 2015

Oasis_Come_to_Life_Kate_Weigel

"The immersive piece creates an intimate environment where color, light and time intersect. The viewer enters through different layers of the room while experiencing the sun either rising or setting. In the center of OASIS, viewers are presented with a slab of stone beneath rippling shadows. Visitors are encouraged to sit by the stone and crush piles of shells adding to a heap that changes over the course of the exhibition. Each visit to the gallery becomes a distinct experience as the sun cycles and the sand collects. The installation acts as a prism that refracts the elements of time through the space. Each element: sand, water, pounding of the rocks, curtains of fabric and the rising and setting of the sun, is made up of smaller moments that layer together to create a whole. Each visitor becomes a moment in the accumulation of the work."