How would we perceive the space around us if the space between the visible elements of that space also became visible to us?

Yasuhiro Chida’s work creates an immersive environment with millions of small strips and points of light filling the space, allowing a different perception of three-dimensional space.

The space is scanned from bottom up by a beam of light, which illuminates the details of a several kilometres long tensed thread densely intertwining the space. Despite its simple structure and use of material, the installation makes complex phenomena perceptible. For example, due to the contrasting differences in hue, the white light projected with a DLP (Digital Light Processing) projector appears in different colours of the rainbow in several points. And although light always travels at the same speed, the different angles and distances of the grid create the illusion as if the points of light were moving around us at different speeds.

Borbála Szalai