"We are always on the verge of the next movement, breath, gesture, cycle."
In this series of kinetic sculptures, Therese Lahaie animates glass, demonstrating its affiliations with light, water, and air. Employing an unusual combination of glass, steel, motors, and fabric, the visual vocabulary speaks fluently in the language of the sciences, the natural world and contemplative practice. The mesmerizing waves evoke both seascape and landscape in a subtle erotic dance. The pieces invite viewers to not only look, but to connect to their own rhythms of heartbeat and breath. |
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Upcoming Spring 2010 Events
PS-122 NY – Performance
July 12 -18, 2010
Developed during a Djerassi Artist Residency in 2010, “Quiet To Departure” is a performance collaboration between visual artist, Therese Lahaie and performer Leigh Evans. Lahaie's sculpture transforms the space with rotating mirrors which cast patterned reflections that traverse the stage, audience and ceiling.
View “Quiet To Departure” video
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Can glass breathe?
Come experience for yourself the solace of transmitted light through glass
- "Sensorial Literacy" kinetic sculptures by Therese Lahaie.
The combination of motor, glass and light (in Lahaie's Nocturne series) create the illusion of waves ebbing and flowing like the ocean tide... beautiful, even hypnotic.
- Benjamin Genocchio, The New York Times, 2007
In most of her pieces, Lahaie has installed low-speed motors behind layers of fabric, training lights on (or from within) the apparatus to produce sinuously changing visual details. Her works offer themselves as devices for emptying the mind.
- Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, 2009
I’d trade in my TV for one of these!
- California College of the Arts student, 2008
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