- Installation
Rejective Space
Kayleigh Maimaran
28 June 2024 19:00 – 30 June 2024 19:00
Rejective Space is a video and sound installation that invites you into an abstract architectural landscape. The work refers to the current housing crisis in Berlin and the low availability of affordable housing, where investment groups and commercial properties seem to be dominating the housing market.
As vacancy and uninhabitable space create a silence in our urban environment, the work is an experiment to depict the housing shortage through a video and sound installation and to explore urban space from a new perspective. A digitally generated soundscape invites the viewer to experience architecture as a complex sensory phenomenon that goes beyond visual perception and to understand sound as another dimension of architecture.
The work creates its own alienated psychological space and establishes a connection between architectural space and emotional space, in which buildings appear as dysfunctional objects rather than active living spaces.
Furthermore, the installation plays with the Pepper's Ghost effect to emphasise the illusion of detached architectural elements floating in space, depicting an urban landscape that threatens to dissolve into a void.
As vacancy and uninhabitable space create a silence in our urban environment, the work is an experiment to depict the housing shortage through a video and sound installation and to explore urban space from a new perspective. A digitally generated soundscape invites the viewer to experience architecture as a complex sensory phenomenon that goes beyond visual perception and to understand sound as another dimension of architecture.
The work creates its own alienated psychological space and establishes a connection between architectural space and emotional space, in which buildings appear as dysfunctional objects rather than active living spaces.
Furthermore, the installation plays with the Pepper's Ghost effect to emphasise the illusion of detached architectural elements floating in space, depicting an urban landscape that threatens to dissolve into a void.
Biography
Kayleigh Maimaran
Kayleigh Maimaran (b.1996) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Berlin.
With a particular interest in the concept of psychological space. Her practice combines video animation, sound and sculptural elements as a form to explore physical and non-physical aspects of space.
She graduated in 2021 from MTU Crawford with a BA in Fine Art and was awarded a Graduate Studio Residency at Sample – Studios. Her work has been part of multiple exhibitions including her solo exhibition Beyond Liminal (2022), at the Lord Mayor’s Pavilion, Cork and her most recent solo exhibition Void Scape (2024) at GlogauAIR, Berlin in 2023.
Her current practice is concerned with the theme of non-habitable space and the idea of exploring architecture as a complex sensory phenomenon.
With a particular interest in the concept of psychological space. Her practice combines video animation, sound and sculptural elements as a form to explore physical and non-physical aspects of space.
She graduated in 2021 from MTU Crawford with a BA in Fine Art and was awarded a Graduate Studio Residency at Sample – Studios. Her work has been part of multiple exhibitions including her solo exhibition Beyond Liminal (2022), at the Lord Mayor’s Pavilion, Cork and her most recent solo exhibition Void Scape (2024) at GlogauAIR, Berlin in 2023.
Her current practice is concerned with the theme of non-habitable space and the idea of exploring architecture as a complex sensory phenomenon.