NYAB Event - Justin Samson "Inside the Cosmic Motion Picture Projector"

Justin Samson "Inside the Cosmic Motion Picture Projector"

John Connelly Presents

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“Inside the Cosmic Motion Picture Projector,” this title refers to the human mind in relation to what we perceive as reality. The observer is the creator. Inspired by quantum theory and the recent global interest in the Large Hadron Collider built by CERN on the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland, Samson has created a body of work that explores the concepts of quantum mechanics.

The sculptures in this exhibition are fictional components of the particle accelerator. Fabricated from found objects, arranged and manipulated through the use of copper paint and assemblage the sculptures are akin to props from a Sci-Fi film. The paintings, created using spray paint, acrylic, on canvas and chipboard, and sometimes embellished by light fixtures, draw from notions and representations of the afterlife, subatomic particles and Dark Matter. These works are influenced by modernists such as Helen Frankenthaler, Mark Rothko, Bart van der Leck and Ad Reinhardt and suggest Samson’s wish is to return a stylistic minimalism to its mystical roots.

Samson underlines that all matter in the universe is connected because all matter is really an energy wave. What we perceive as reality is in fact our brain’s interpretation of the interference patterns of the waves. We objectify these patterns as reality. To apply quantum theory, the physical world must be divided into two parts. These parts are the observed system and the observing system. On a subatomic level, physicists create particles just by observing them. On the macrocosmic level the human mind creates the universe. Reality is projected by thought. The mind is a wave. It is connected to everything in the universe.