Liz West, Iri-Descent, 2019, Installation exhibited at Fortnum & Mason, London as part of the London Design Festical in 2019 and Hyvinkää Art Museum in 2020-21.
Iri-Descent
Polycarbonate, dichroic film, aluminium, stainless steel
225cm (L) x 810cm (H) x 225cm (W)
2019
Iri-Descent is an ambitious work made from a vast arrangement of delicate suspended cubes covered in colour transmitting dichroic film. Iri-Descent consists of 150 skeleton-framework cubes that descend through the space clad with highly reflective and luminous dichroic film in two differing colour-ways which mirrors and sheds light on its surrounds. The cubes appear to change colour as visitors move around the work. There are two colour variations which systematically alternate throughout – warm and cool – offering a diverse range of hues. The choice of material embodies West’s interest in the relationship between colour and light and their ability to enhance the viewers perception of the work.
Iri-Descent forms part of an ongoing series of spatial light works based upon research into colour theory and light fields with an ambition to transform architectural spaces and public environments. West works across a variety of media, mixing luminous colour and radiant light in a provocation of sensory reactions. With Iri-Descent, she wants to encourage visitors to engage with the space in a new way, and to examine their own personal relationship to colour and light.
Iri-Descent has been exhibited at Fortnum & Mason, London as part of the London Design Festical in 2019 and Hyvinkää Art Museum in 2020-21.
Iri-Descent was commissioned by London Design Festival, supported by Fortnum & Mason. Photographs © Aleksi Nurminen / Andy Stagg