Interpreter Installations, October and March 2020

These photographs document site specific installations featuring modular pieces from the Interpreter series.

The photographs capture the flexible and adaptable traits of the works and at the same time the extraordinary period in which these were taken.

Interpreter Series is concerned with socio-political complexities and explored primarily through process, observation and sculpture.  

The series always starts with an image created using an AI-powered tool.  The tool is used to explore influence and bias, chance and control. The process is used to abstract, as a way to embed hints and fragments onto the surface.

The name “Interpreter series” references both the experience of migrant children who are often their parents interpreters’, and the left-brain interpreter.  A neuropsychological concept developed by the psychologist Michael S. Gazzaniga and the neuroscientist Joseph E. LeDoux. It refers to the construction of explanations by the left-brain hemisphere in order to make sense of the world by reconciling new information with what was known before.

Through the multiple layers of abstraction, the work becomes increasingly ambiguous, leaving room for mis-translation.  As a reference to the migrant experience, the need for an interpreter.