Lara Baladi
Roba Vecchia - The Wheel of Fortune. 2006
Life-sized kaleidoscope
Mirrors and steel, back projection, computer software
About the work
A life-sized kaleidoscope which the viewer can enter and become a part of. The artist worked with a computer programmer to create software that organises fragments of the artist’s work in a pattern that mutates randomly and combines the projected photographic images in an infinite and non-repetitive way. The installation presents viewers with a shifting array of kaleidoscopic images which evokes the accumulation and reworking of leftovers of the past in a continuous rewriting of history. The work’s illusory, yet historically and culturally resonant, sacred geometry resembles moving stained glass windows, mandalas, arabesques, the microcosm of cellular life or the infinite night sky.
© From the catalogue of Sharjah Biennial 8, 2007.
See also:
Lara Baladi
works at Sharjah Art Museum
© Photos: Haupt & Binder, Universes in Universe
Part 4 of the photo tour through Sharjah Biennial 8, 4 April - 4 June 2007. Biennial Director: Hoor Al Qasimi. Artistic Director: Jack Persekian. Curators: Mohammed Kazem, Eva Scharrer, Jonathan Watkins. 79 artists and groups.