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Artworks
Rae Lanzerotti
Depth Perception Part 2: Shades, 2024
Mp3 audio with paper mobile composed of dowel rods, monofilament, ribbon, mini-magnets, vellum, acetate paper with self-portraits
80" x 48" x 36"
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Visual Description
Shades presents a triad of repeating self-portraits with distorted and doubled images of the artist’s face. They are wearing large, dark sunglasses. One portrait is from the neck up, another brings us closer to their smiling face, and the sunglasses dominate the closest view. Multiple copies of the portraits, printed on translucent acetate and vellum letter-sized pages, hang vertically in three layers forming a suspended mobile. They hang from red and yellow ribbons and clear monofilament attached to horizontal dowel rods. These slender wooden rods, tipped with red tape on the left side, hang from the ceiling horizontally like the top of a door frame (about: 80 high x 48 wide x 36 inches deep). Each of the three portrait layers holds a composite grid of twelve, with four pages arranged into three columns. The portraits move slightly with air currents, and natural light filters through them. An empty column, slightly staggered from one layer to the next, suggests an opening that beckons visitors toward the gallery space exterior windows and glass exit door. Yet the complexity of the structure complicates movement toward the outdoors. Audio (18 minutes looped) brings in sounds of traversing San Francisco neighborhoods using a navigation cane and saying hello.
Visual Description
Shades presents a triad of repeating self-portraits with distorted and doubled images of the artist’s face. They are wearing large, dark sunglasses. One portrait is from the neck up, another brings us closer to their smiling face, and the sunglasses dominate the closest view. Multiple copies of the portraits, printed on translucent acetate and vellum letter-sized pages, hang vertically in three layers forming a suspended mobile. They hang from red and yellow ribbons and clear monofilament attached to horizontal dowel rods. These slender wooden rods, tipped with red tape on the left side, hang from the ceiling horizontally like the top of a door frame (about: 80 high x 48 wide x 36 inches deep). Each of the three portrait layers holds a composite grid of twelve, with four pages arranged into three columns. The portraits move slightly with air currents, and natural light filters through them. An empty column, slightly staggered from one layer to the next, suggests an opening that beckons visitors toward the gallery space exterior windows and glass exit door. Yet the complexity of the structure complicates movement toward the outdoors. Audio (18 minutes looped) brings in sounds of traversing San Francisco neighborhoods using a navigation cane and saying hello.