Rupture bursts with the potential of rapture. The 'Rapture' project sits with the crossroads of historical trajectories and a zeitgeist reflection upon the current tension of changing and uncertain times. The calmness of the installation environment is itself an enveloping meditation upon the many narratives it houses. Emerging through histories of sound and the body, censorship and repression, national identity, the current suspense of the unknown future in the devastating face of change, Rapture is a state of excitation.
Rapture relates the quivering of sympathetic vibrations to the tremors of shock waves in a phenomenological and socio-political reflection upon the body and mind’s relationship to trauma, ecstasy and the state of becoming. The body of the pavilion itself is subject to this experience, allowing visitors to witness, and enter within a body suspended in a state of excitation.
I chose to post Mrs Norment's work here because the space she built emphasises the use of white and negative space, the calm in the chaos, the emptiness versus the fullness. Abstract but inspiring work.
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