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For Art FTL, Rockford is using the idea of a single enclosure with adjacent rooms as stimulus to create a journey for the viewer, staging the property with works that translate elements of life and existence for reflection.
The viewer will begin their experience in the “ECSTASY” room- offering a rainbow of vivid, saturated colors at the entrance chamber. Bathrooms and enclosures will be “AURA” themed, with their own warm, celebrations of light in art, many made of neon, LEDs, and other synthetics. Attendees will next be given a literal experience of reflection, as they see themselves in the mirrored surfaces, and polished stainless steel of the “NARCISSUS” bedroom. Adjacent rooms turn to the natural—with the “ELEMENTAL” themes of Earth, and Water particularly emphasized, being conceptually connected the site. Artworks that reference more serious concerns relevant to the locale, like sea level rise, and our human impact on ecology, will be of curatorial emphasis. The second to last room is “MEMENTO MORI,” featuring the most universal of themes—resonating death and transience. The last room, “OMEGA,” in contrast, will offer calm in artworks with an absence of color, formed completely of white materials, yet offering exquisite surface quality and texture.
For Art FTL, Rockford is using the idea of a single enclosure with adjacent rooms as stimulus to create a journey for the viewer, staging the property with works that translate elements of life and existence for reflection.
The viewer will begin their experience in the “ECSTASY” room- offering a rainbow of vivid, saturated colors at the entrance chamber. Bathrooms and enclosures will be “AURA” themed, with their own warm, celebrations of light in art, many made of neon, LEDs, and other synthetics. Attendees will next be given a literal experience of reflection, as they see themselves in the mirrored surfaces, and polished stainless steel of the “NARCISSUS” bedroom. Adjacent rooms turn to the natural—with the “ELEMENTAL” themes of Earth, and Water particularly emphasized, being conceptually connected the site. Artworks that reference more serious concerns relevant to the locale, like sea level rise, and our human impact on ecology, will be of curatorial emphasis. The second to last room is “MEMENTO MORI,” featuring the most universal of themes—resonating death and transience. The last room, “OMEGA,” in contrast, will offer calm in artworks with an absence of color, formed completely of white materials, yet offering exquisite surface quality and texture.
aura
ecstacy
elemental
memento mori
narcissus
omega
