Project Atrium: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
September 5, 2024 - February 16, 2025
Spectral Subjects is a new exciting immersive art installation designed to transform the Atrium Gallery of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Jacksonville, Florida. World-renowned artist, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, has proposed an installation that, using state-of-the-art thermal imaging software, detects heat and cold in the environment. The changes in temperature, caused by the visitor’s body heat, as well as the building’s air circulation and ventilation, will manifest as colossal wall projections in the atrium.
As with previous biometric art projects by Lozano-Hemmer, the piece is a call to think of the human body as a continuum with the environment around us. The skin is not the limit of our body but rather its visible limit: sound, smell, heat, air/breath, and even chemical signals, are constantly being interchanged across what is incorrectly described as the boundary between the public and the private. Written and oral language, actions, movement, and exteroception are examples of other manifestations of our extension into our surroundings, as are the resulting buildings, songs, and artworks, but also the environmental degradation and the Anthropocene in general.
SAVE THE DATE Opening Celebration: Fall Exhibitions
September 5 | 6-9 p.m.
Patrons 6 p.m. | Members 7 p.m. | Public 8 p.m. We celebrate our newest exhibitions, including the opening of Spectral Subjects, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s upcoming Project Atrium installation that features colossal wall projections controlled by a thermal-imaging computer analysis system. This event is free for all. MOCA Members will receive an exclusive early access invite. Not a Member? Join today!
Sponsors
Project Atrium: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Spectral Subjects is made possible through the generous support of Project Atrium season sponsors Joan and Preston Haskell, along with the support of Centennial sponsors for MOCA Jacksonville's 100th Anniversary year from Lauren and Ted Baker, the City of Jacksonville, the Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville, Inaugural Director's Circle, the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, Florida Blue, the Florida Division of Arts & Culture, Joan and Preston Haskell, the MOCA Board of Trustees, the University of North Florida, and Visit Jacksonville.
ABOUT RAFEAL LOZANO-HEMMER
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer was born in Mexico City in 1967. In 1989 he received a B.Sc. in Physical Chemistry from Concordia University in Montréal, Canada.
Hemmer is a media artist working at the intersection of architecture and performance art. He creates platforms for public participation using technologies such as robotic lights, digital fountains, computerized surveillance, media walls, and telematic networks. Inspired by phantasmagoria, carnival, and animatronics, his light and shadow works are "antimonuments for alien agency."
Hemmer has exhibited his work around the globe, and he was the first artist to represent Mexico at the Venice Biennale with an exhibition at Palazzo Van Axel in 2007.