”Colocation, Time Displacement” is the latest work by artist Yuri Pattision, who has created a new exhibit that features 3D printed replicas of meteorites. To look at the distortions in our understanding of physical reality in the age of digital media, this solo exhibition showcases exact replicas of meteorites from the Chelyabinsk crash in February 2013 that were produced by 3D printing service provider i.materialise using materials that ‘create a sense of space, but also change how they reflect space if altered.’
The Minibar Artist Space in Stockholm, Sweden, is currently the home of Pattison’s latest work. The installation juxtaposes digital replication with a video representing a conversation between the present and a time traveller from the future in a bid to distort the viewer’s perspective.
This interesting combination of perspectives challenges the audience to consider their place in time, space, the material, the digital and modes of communication. The boundaries of what we think of as the Earth, and the many points of origin of the materials that constitute it. It also poses the manifestation of the digital into the physical that 3D printing represents, and how that is in turn changing our perspectives upon the physical. The changes in technology and the way those changes in turn change our perspective on the world. These and more challenge the viewer to open their mind and pose questions.
By layering these features Yuri Pattison challenges us to think about what it is we are actually seeing and experiencing. The exhibit in Stockholm started on the May 24th and is running through June 7th.
