LUX: Solo Exhibition at The Eyes Sees, Arles, France
LUX is Fiona Grady's first solo exhibition in France. She was invited by The Eye Sees to create a site-specific vinyl installation on the windows of their three storey building in the centre of historic Arles.
British artist Fiona Grady creates site-responsive installations. Her practice recognizes the relationship between architecture, installation art and decoration. Fiona plays with light, surface and scale - each piece changes with the light of day, emphasizing the passing of time and the ephemeral nature of the work. Her interventions explore the framework of their site, working with the fabric of the building, and thus pin-point details in their surroundings.
For her exhibition Lux the windows of Entractes play temporary host to a geometric motif that criss-crosses the window panes with coloured and metallic triangles. The vinyl shapes either reflect or filter light to create dual effects - the experience of viewing the artwork varies depending on the proximity to the work and the time of day. Daylight has an important relationship with the installation, activating elements of the vinyl to
cast coloured shadows within The Eye Sees, whilst also allowing the metallic vinyl to mirror the surrounding streets and introduce their image onto the gallery frontage.
The Eye Sees opened its doors for the very first time in July 2018 in Arles to coincided with Les Rencontres de la photographie held in the art capital of Provence each year for the past 50 years. The focus of The Eye Sees over the following four years has been to showcase the work of artists from around the world who had never so far exhibited in Arles and who were pushing the boundaries of photography and related media.
