Hyperbolic Peephole
Spectral decomposition of light
Description
Artist: Nourathar Studio
Authors: Caen Botto & Marta Rupérez
Title: Hyperbolic Peephole
Date: 2019
Medium: Mixed media; screen, video player, electronics, lens, perspex in custom wooden box.
Dimensions: 44,5 (h) x 44,5 (w) x 30 (d) cm
Loop duration: 1'49"
Edition: unique within a series of 7
Concept
> Hyperbole: exaggeration
> Hyperbola: symmetric curve, in mathematics
An exaggerated peephole for the observation of hyperbola.
Hyperbolic Peephole offers an expanded peephole, a portal to a visual universe which results from the combination of analog and digital processes. A lens produces different types of deformations and spectral decompositions of the light emitted by a screen, seemingly subverting the laws of perspective. As a result, the perception of the artwork is relative to the spectator’s point of view.