Galleria is a 25-minute, 3D animation depicting the exterior surfaces of a modern shopping mall recorded by a weightless camera as it slowly traverses its contours and enclosures. The CGI rendering parallels the artificiality of the mall but also furthers it by removing all imperfections and variation, resulting in a depiction that has a crystal-like clarity. By presenting this at an extremely slow speed, the viewer is confronted with a hyper-synthetic representation of light, shadow, and space.
Galleria was shown at the Soap Factory in Minneapolis as part of The Americana show in June 2014. www.soapfactory.org
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