Immersive video installation, projection on circular screen (Ø 4m), sound, custom rotation system

Rotating Panorama // Bos takes as its point of departure Piet Mondriaan’s early painting Bos (1898–1899). Projected onto the interior of a circular screen four metres in diameter—an echo of the 19th-century panorama—the moving image rotates slowly around the viewer, becoming a ‘window’ to an external environment; this of a forest.

Over the course of ten minutes, the forest gradually dissolves into a field of abstraction. This transition traces Mondriaan’s own artistic trajectory: from the depiction of natural landscapes to the geometric language of works such as Pier and Ocean. As the forest dissolves, the viewer occupies the still point of rotation, witnessing the image slip from representation toward deconstruction and abstraction.

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Exhibited at Young & Emerging, Museum Villa Mondriaan, 2021.

Visual programming: Zois Loumakis
Sound design: Kyriakos Charalampides

Created with the financial support of Stroom Den Haag.