Pixel Forest Transformer

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Exhibition view: New Museum
Photo: Maris Hutchinson / EPW Studio

Artist Pipilotti Rist(Swiss, born 1962)Swiss, born 1962

CultureSwiss

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Pixel Forest Transformer

Date2016

MediumHanging LED light audio-video installation

DimensionsVariable dimensions

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment

Object number2017.114

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Modern and Contemporary Art

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Description"Pixel Forest" has been fabricated by Rist and her collaborator Kaori Kuwabara to span the vast space of this museum’s Cullinan Hall. Each light is controlled by a video signal in sync with the video projection "Worry Will Vanish," so that the “forest” is constantly changing, sometimes shifting in a staccato rhythm, and sometimes in sinuous waves of color. Visitors can stroll throughout this environment, described by Rist as “a digital image that has exploded in space.” Rist explains further: “I want to make it clear that everything we look at is also always just organized light, which helps as I dissolve architecture and forms. I am interested in the combination of nature and technology; these are not two different things.”
ProvenanceThe artist; [Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 2017.
Exhibition History"Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest and Worry Will Vanish," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, June 11–September 17, 2017.

"Pipilotti Rist: Big Heartedness, Be My Neighbor," Geffen Contemporary, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, January 9, 2021–June 5, 2022.
Published References Massimiliano Gioni and Margot Norton, Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest (London: Phaidon Press, Ltd., 2016). Sibylle Berg, Martin Suter, Pipilotti Rist et al., Pipilotti Rist: Your Saliva is My Diving Suit in the Ocean of Pain (Zürich: Kunsthaus Zürich, 2016). Pipilotti Rist, “500 Words: Pipilotti Rist,” Artforum.com, October 25, 2016. https://www.artforum.com/words/id=64263

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