Repulse Bay 

Curator: Looking at this artwork by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, an installation piece titled "Repulse Bay", one immediately observes a space defined by radiant blue light, seemingly suspended within its own atmosphere. Editor: My first thought is of a dream. An impossible room. Is it inviting or isolating? That stark blue is definitely… something. Curator: Indeed. The light source, embedded along the edges of the room, casts sharp geometric shadows. Note also the ladder leading to what seems like an exit – a flat, bright opening disrupting the blue. We can explore this through structuralist perspectives by analyzing binary oppositions here. Editor: Oh, like blue/yellow? Confinement/escape? Maybe that ladder’s more of a… symbol. You know, reaching for something just out of grasp. It's melancholic. Curator: It is, and let us delve further into semiotics as it might also act as an index referring to human endeavors to surmount boundaries. Gonzalez-Foerster manipulates our perception through these minimalist installations characteristic of the Light and Space movement. The composition begs us to interpret absence and presence, substance and illusion. Editor: Illusion, definitely. It reminds me a bit of childhood, making forts with blankets, dreaming up other worlds, the slightly unsettling feeling that something *else* is right there with you in the dark. Is that a conceptual trick? Playing on that vulnerability? Curator: Conceptually it invites such interpretation. The geometric rigor clashes with a visceral immersion of light – it begs exploration of digital art and what is is becoming today, and our felt experience and how such mediums affect such concepts. Editor: True, true. Digital, yet eerily… tangible, you almost expect to feel a cool breeze, right? Well, that's a head trip. Curator: It's as if she asks us to ponder on the threshold of reality. How can we define such realities. I do thank you for such great thought as to the ladder though as an art-form in and of itself. Editor: Me too, thanks for showing me a new way to look at the use of shapes, colors and perception here!