In partnership with Brisbane City Council to transform the city’s laneways and public places with artistic activations, contemporary, experiential artist Kinly Grey has created a new large-scale immersive art installation that transforms the familiar Brisbane backdrops into sites of ephemeral beauty.
Kinly Grey, Blue 5 – Smoke Room, 2014, installation view. Courtesy the artist
For three days only, The Size of Air, a glowing, blue cube made of transparent walls filled with thick white fog, with images of a clear blue sky projected across its surface, will appear on Brisbane’s Queen Street Mall from 25 to 27 October, 4-8pm. Measuring five-by-five metres, the three-dimensional work will contain 75 cubic metres of dense smoke at any given time. Reducing the field of vision to a dim blur, the installation invites visitors into a calm and reflective realm – your body is engulfed, your field of vision is reduced to a dim blur; inviting a different way of experiencing the space around us and our city.
Kinly Grey, Blue 4 – Smoke Room, 2013, installation view. Courtesy the artist
Curated by McCarthy-Swann Projects, The Size of Air is the 12th instalment of Grey’s blue series – an experiment with scale and space to produce immersive, sensory, site-specific environments and ephemeral works inside and outside of galleries. Grey is interested in staging experiences that heighten visceral perception and bodily thinking, and exploring the moments of intense feeling that arise through these experiences.
The pop-up structure acts as the sequel to Meagan Streader’s The Weight of Light, an electro-luminescent work tracing the architectural features of the historic Spring Hill Reservoir site using lines of light; re-interpreting and extending the boundaries of the original space.
