Georgie Friedman BREATHING- LIGHT

Oregon Contemporary presents BREATHING– LIGHT, an experiential video and sound installation that ponders the enormity of the intangible: elements too small to see – too large to touch.

Imagery of the Sun’s corona rotates across three large, curved projection-forms. The layered environment visually connects or separates based upon how visitors navigate between the forms or position themselves in the space. The shrinking and slicing of the Sun’s surface creates a scale shift. Either the sun (which is 864,400 miles in diameter – about 109 times that of the Earth) has shrunk to thirty-two feet wide, or we’ve become almost 20 Earths – 836,985,600 ft – tall. Meanwhile, formerly-tiny particulates catch light and air currents, creating a notable presence as they move across the space.

The elements in the sun, on the Earth, and in our veins, can at times feel disparate, but when considered together, they are the tiny and immense things that connect us all.

Georgie Friedman (she/her), is an internationally exhibiting video and video installation artist who creates single and multi-channel videos, sculptural video installations, and site-specific projects that focus on our personal and societal relationships to severe environmental circumstances. She bases her projects on a range of powerful atmospheric, oceanic, and geologic conditions, and has traveled to five continents, including Antarctica, to film for her projects. Friedman has been based in Boston, MA since 2005, but has lived and worked in various parts of the country. Though she mainly grew up in Portland, OR, this exhibit at Oregon Contemporary marks her first professional solo exhibit in the region.