Ryoji Ikeda Presents: test pattern

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On an initial encounter with the work of Ryoji Ikeda, one relatable experience might be an all-pervasive sense of being caught between. First contact with test pattern, which features as part of the artist’s upcoming exhibition at 180 The Strand, presented by Fact and The Vinyl Factory in collaboration with Audemars Piguet Contemporary, induces an altered state of consciousness that causes one’s mind and one’s body to somersault away from each other, your being trapped between intense physicality and conceptual complexity. You are at once pinned to the ground by the arresting, occasionally abrasive audiovisual onslaught of his work, while at the same time transported to the most micro and macro of scales, the building blocks of human life and the universe in which it exists transformed into light and sound in front of your eyes in a way that is, in the most traditional sense of the word, awe-inspiring.

Developed over years, test pattern serves as a perfect introduction to the data-driven work of Ryoji Ikeda, situated precisely at the borderline between sound and light, between beauty and the sublime, whereby the artist sheds light on the mathematical forms that drive our everyday lives to approach some aesthetic understanding of the nature of our world.

This exhibition, produced and curated by The Vinyl Factory and Fact in collaboration with Audemars Piguet Contemporary, follows five years of collaboration between Ryoji Ikeda and The Vinyl Factory, which includes the UK premieres of Ikeda’s supersymmetry in 2015 and test pattern [N°12] in 2017, as well as several vinyl albums and new commissions. The exhibition will present 12 large-scale, multimedia works, six of which will be premiering on the global stage, and five will be showing for the first time in the UK.

The show opens on May 20 and will run until August 1. Tickets are available now at: https://www.180thestrand.com/

For more information about Ryoji Ikeda and his work, you can visit his website and follow him on Instagram.

Directed and filmed by Pedro S. Küster
Additional Cinematography by Laima Leyton

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