The genesis of Annika Rixen’s latest body of work is found in John Tyndall’s 1873 Six Lectures on Light. The six works presented at the Or Gallery are products of the loose application of Tyndall’s ideas and his description of scientific experimentation into an aesthetic regime of observation.
Rixen’s process of abstraction does not begin with a blank slate upon which the artwork can be built, but by working from preexisting concrete materials, distilling their logics through experimentation and abstracting one way of seeing from the various presentational modes that are coexistent.
Rixen's exhibition Sciences of Observation opens Friday, January 13, 8pm at the Or Gallery
