Pipilotti Rist
Pixel Forest Transformer

Pixel Forest Transformer

© Pipilotti Rist, Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth and Luhring Augustine / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ProLitteris, Zurich

Pixel Forest Transformer
Pixel Forest Transformer
ArtistSwiss, born 1962
CultureSwiss
Titles
  • Pixel Forest Transformer
Date2016
MediumHanging LED light audio-video installation
DimensionsVariable dimensions
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund
Object number2017.114
Not on view

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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.

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