Project Description: For this collaboration with Invisible Venue (IV), Alex Clausen chose to investigate the idea of how outside forces influence the space. In its current iteration as an alternative project space housed in a domestic setting in West Oakland, an urban area with a complicated history and economic challenges, IV is constrained by a number of parameters, such as safety and economics. Focusing on sunlight as a metaphor for these types of uncontrollable outside forces, the artist tracked the daytime movement and patterning of natural light in the project space. These calculations, recorded with string and tape, became the volumetric outlines for a site-specific sculptural form. Furthering the metaphor of this work as the physical manifestation of outside influences, the sculpture dominates the space in a way that challenges the viewer's ability to navigate the room or to view the work in its entirety.

Quoted from Christian Frock, Invisible Venue, Oakland, CA.

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