Conversion

Overview

Bait Al Hurma, located in Sharjah’s Heritage Area, is a small house attached to a large courtyard constantly awash in sunlight, sharp and flattening. Conversion is an installation that plays with this natural source of light by covering the courtyard with a metal structure made up of pivoting panels of coloured filters.

Often used for lighting film sets, these 'colour correction' filters here create cinema without film: sunlight is converted into a fragmented range of colours – from a sodium vapour light to a golden sunset, from a dark cloud shadow to a twilight-hour glow – altering visitors’ experience depending on the area in which they stand, the angle of the panels above them and the time of day. At every moment, new atmospheres are created.

2013

This project was part of Sharjah Biennial 11
Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation