All images © 2021 Sarah Schorr
Galleri Image presents The Color of Water
by the American artist Sarah Schorr
The Color of Water
is an investigation of one of our life sustaining elements: water. What
is the color of water? The answer is part science and part emotion; yet
the answer is elusive and shifting. Through the dual processes of
examining gradations of color and gradations of emotion, Sarah Schorr follows
the ephemeral refractions of light and mood in water. How will we
preserve this resource for future generations?
Opaque,
transparent, or translucent, entering water can delineate both a
physical passage and a metaphysical pathway. The point of ingress
creates surface tension. A shift in pressure causes liquid to quiver as
it is pierced. Air is reduced and then removed. Sound changes: Music
becomes obscured and redacted. Silver to black to emerald green: Water
is often not blue. Sometimes the sea is a rolling red from deep sea
algae. Assisted by the waterscape, these transitions open us to
different reflective experiences, sparking introspection about
attention, physicality, and mobility in our media-saturated landscape.
Schorr’s work does not answer the rhetorical question: what is the color
of water? Instead, this project is an invitation to engage in a process
of inquiry and contemplation.
Using water as a reflecting pool
for seeing color, the exhibition also includes two interactive works.
“The Algorithmic Sea", a collaboration between Sarah Schorr and creative
coders Gabriel Pereira and Carlos Oliveira, invites viewers to explore
how both humans and computers see color. “Longing Messages,” an
iterative installation work by Sarah Schorr made during Covid-19 invites
participants to explore what they miss through the visual metaphor of a
message in a bottle.
The Color of Water
by the American artist Sarah Schorr
March 12 - May 2, 2021
The dates of the exhibition period are subject to change depending on Covid-19 restrictions
Director: Beate Cegielska
“The Color of Water” accordian book, a signed edition of 250
Published by Galleri Image
The exhibition features
Sarah Schorr’s accordion book, “
The Color of Water,”
inspired by stairways into the sea and twilight colors in
Denmark. The book is published by
Galleri Image and printed at Narayana
Press in a signed edition of 250.
Words by Elizabeth Avedon and Anne Marie Kragh Pahuus.The Color of Water: A virtual gallery tour with Sarah Schorr with a Q and A hosted by Aarhus University Associate Professor Stephen Joyce (March 22, 2021 at 3 pm on Zoom)
Galleri Image is Scandinavia’s oldest non-profit exhibition space for photography and camera based art.
All images © 2021 Sarah Schorr
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