Adrián Villar Rojas: The End of Imagination
Descend into the complete darkness of AGNSW's subterranean space, the Tank, for this dystopian sculptural exhibition.
Overview
Described as a "high-sensory experience," the latest exhibition from Argentinian artist Adrián Villar Rojas promises to have you seeing light and darkness in an entirely new way.
The inaugural installation at Art Gallery NSW's former wartime oil bunker known as the Tank, The End of Imagination is powered by a maelstrom of code dubbed the Time Engine. It generates hypothetical scenarios across millions of years before filling the space with mindbending light sculptures inspired by said situations.
In 2021, Rojas 'downloaded' the virtual sculptures and painstakingly recreated them in mixed media before transporting them across the world from his home country. Displayed in a pitch-black environment teeming with moving lights, Rojas' creations seek to answer environmental, socio-political and anthropological quandaries we haven't even yet begun to ask ourselves.
Images: Installation view of Adrian Villar Rojas 'The End of Imagination' 2022 in the Tank at the Art Gallery of New South Wales © Adrian Villar Rojas, photo © Jörg Baumann
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