Liz West, Your Colour Perception, 2015, Installation at Castlefield Gallery’s Art Spaces Federation House fourth floor in Manchester.
Site-specific Installation (T8 fluorescent bulbs, cellulose gels)
Dimensions variable, this image shows 10,000 sq ft
2015
Your Colour Perception incorporated all 10,000 square feet of Castlefield Gallery’s New Art Spaces Federation House fourth floor in Manchester. The work was developed in direct response to the space prior. West reacted to the architectural space using colour and light to create vast immersive installation art.
Within this work, West was interested in the influence and perception of luminous colour in architectural space and on visitors experiencing it. West transformed Federation House into a sensory, visceral experience by overloading it with artificial chromatic light in which to test the psychological, physical, emotional and spiritual responses visitors experience during their encounter.
This work utilises the darkness outside to raise the strength of the illumination and colouration in the work. Using this enormous space to install a light work in the darkest Winter months allowed the colour to bleed with more saturation than if displayed any other time of the year.
Photographs © Stephen Iles