PROJECT

spatial cloud

Commissioned as an epilogue to the Morphé series, Spatial Cloud is a standalone work created through the overlay of hundreds of photographs of architectural reflections.

Dubai’s mirrored image is an entity itself, a prismatic doppelganger that slithers across every facet of the skyscrapers’ countless candy-colored claddings. This parallel landscape transforms endlessly, dissecting and reconfiguring in all directions as the urban mass accumulates and weathers, the hours pass, or the observer sways – even in the slightest. To view one surface is to see many, and in this quality the artwork considers the suggestion of Simultanism manifest across the face of the city.

Simultanism – a theoretical component of Cubism – regards temporality, consciousness, and the state of fluidity as a single phenomenon. As Cubist artists deconstructed and repositioned the geometry of their subjects, Simultanism theorized that each new angle was not just an orientation in space, but were also moments in time; the multi-angular view, therefore, acts as a conduit to a fuller depiction of being – exposing then blending the shape of a thing with its past, present, and future.

While Simultanism includes a deeper spectrum of ideas, Dubai’s native embodiment of its premise offered a unique lens through which to portray a literal and metaphoric rendering. Fusing countless images of the urban landscape, the Spatial Cloud is an abstraction of the cityscape inside and out; however, even after most of the representational order is dissolved, a specter of structure still haunts the final composition, awash in tonalities of flood and fire.

Edition 1/1

MEDIUM Pigment Photographic Print

Credit

SITE PHOTOGRAPHY: Eric Laignel

design & production