James Turrell : “Ganzfield”
One of James Turrell’s latest works, Ganzfield, is an 10 x 12 x 10m room bathed in changing colour. Its name refers to the Ganzfield effect, a phenomenon of visual perception in which staring at an undifferentiated, uniform field of colour (a la Olafur Eliasson’s Room For One Colour) results in hallucinations.
In Turrell’s work, the room cycles between the red and blue ranges of the colour spectrum, which rapidly overwhelm the retina. In seconds, the boundaries of the space dissolve. The mind looks in vain for corners of walls and is left instead with an impression of infinity - the kind of transcindental experience at which Turrell excels. As he says, “There’s something about light which science can’t quite fully encompass, or dissolve.”
article from FRAME magazine
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