Rebecca Baumann’s work spans sculpture, installation and performance. Her practice is driven by a formal and conceptual exploration of materials through kinetic installations that engage audiences through their experiential, fleeting and emotive qualities, as well as the choreography of colour and movement. Throughout her practice Baumann has often used ordinary, found, low-tech machines such as clocks, fans, ball throwers, and more recently computer-driven signage mechanisms, to activate the moment when the viewing experience is changed.
For ‘WA Focus’, Baumann presents a site-specific installation, creating an immersive experience, which explores colour, light and time. Her work, Automated Colour Field (2011), a hypnotic display of ceaselessly turning flip-clocks, will be on display to coincide with the exhibition.
Art Gallery of Western Australia
Until 22 August, 2016
Western Australia
Automated Colour Field, 2011, 100 flip clocks, laser-cut paper, duration 24 hours, ed.3/3, 130 x 360 x 9cm
State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia
Purchased through the TomorrowFund, Art Gallery of Western Australia Foundation, 2011
© Rebecca Baumann, 2011
Courtesy the artist and Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
