APEIRON
“Apeiron” is an environment produced by projections that transports its viewers from their daily experience to a constructed reality. The name comes from the Greek translation of “Infinity”, a word that has been often used to define our ever-expanding Universe. “Apeiron” questions the belief in an infinite Universe by turning a finite white room into an alternative reality. This is accomplished through digitally produced visuals that reference cosmological concepts such as black holes, stars, the fabric of spacetime and objects made out of binary code. “Apeiron” foregrounds the idea of "the holographic principle” which states that the entire universe might be a hologram. Our whole perception of a three-dimensional world could be encoded in a two-dimensional surface; therefore, everything that we see could be nothing but a projection.
The goal of “Apeiron” is to let its viewers feel free to question reality and maybe even escape their own. Cosmology is a subject that always compelled me because it’s an idea that’s bigger than life. So much information is unknown, and some of it humans cannot yet comprehend. For example, the actual feeling and experience of a black hole is something we can only imagine, and the way I imagine it is how it is represented in this room. Our imagination can only just sink into those concepts and create such mystical images which make you feel like you’re in another world.
