“Invisible Presence” is a three-channel video installation projecting shadows from tree leaves onto the floor. Although the moving images evoke a scene from nature, the shadows and their movements are created through 3D, questioning the relation between site specific and virtual spaces. The installation creates a liminal space where questions about authenticity and simulation merge. In a time where we increasingly navigate both physical and digital spaces, and where the boundaries between these worlds are becoming more fluid, the piece comments on this merging of experiential dimensions.
Biography
Born in Copenhagen, Theis Wendt graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Applying a broad range of materials – both the organic and the synthetic – Wendt’s creative process combines sculpture, installation and post-photography into illusionary works that demand viewers’ careful examination. Here, materials seem to mimic others, and faint impressions of nature are conjured by digital means. As with any image, looked upon with any first glance, things are rarely as they appear.
Wendt’s works have been the subject of numerous exhibitions, including at the Nitja Center for Contemporary Art in Akershus, Brandts Sculpture Triennial in Odense; and the Torrance Art Museum in Los Angeles.
His work has been exhibited notably at Andersen’s Contemporary and Charlottenborg Kunsthal in Copenhagen, The Ravestijn Gallery in Amsterdam, Kalmar Konstmuseum in Kalmar and the Torrance Art Museum in Los Angeles.