Gallery 2
Ren Gregorcฬงicฬง
Friday 18 March - 4 April 2021
at the point of a singular horizon is a solo exhibition by artist and researcher Ren Gregorฤiฤ interrogating the interface of digitally mediated expressions of structurally mediated environments.
The exhibition features a video work and two texture maps that present multi-perspective views of a digitally reconstructed garden plot within a concrete courtyard. The reconstruction has been generated using a method known as 'photogrammetry' that produces 3D geometry from photographic data. The texture maps (images that are applied to surfaces of 3D models to give them colour and detail) are also outcomes of the photogrammetric process. From a top-down view, the digital reconstruction seems complete and cohesive, however, at other angles, it appears distorted and broken. This structural/aesthetic quality is a result of the photogrammetric software used in this project attempting to make a whole and complete object from incomplete and complex reference data.
The reference photographs used to produce the digital reconstruction were taken at sunset, fixing native shadows onto the 3D objectโs surface. In the video work, a light source simulating the sun moving across the sky has been used to illuminate the digital object. This simulated sun produces subtle moments where the fixed and digitally projected shadows overlap as the garden plot fades in and out of view.
Ren Gregorฤiฤ is an Australian artist of the Slovenian diaspora working in the field of sculpture and spatial practice. His practice explores how mechanisms of economic, social and cultural management and control are expressed in architecture, infrastructure, urban planning and nature-management.
image: Ren Gregorฤiฤ, at the point of a singular horizon (video still), 2020. Single channel video. Image courtesy the artist.