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Ingrid Lahti - HEAVY/light

Installation with video (1999)

I conceived HEAVY/light as a narrative in three spaces: the entry, the passage, and the chandelier crash space. Very generally, I created these spaces to evoke physical feelings of ambivalence, and disorientation, and to resolve the tension with the cathartic shattering of the chandelier.

— Ingrid Lahti

HEAVY/light, an installation at the Fisher Gallery and Video Annex in Seattle, comprised river rocks arranged on the ground, illuminated by low, motorized, pendulum lights; an alternating neon sign; and a projected video loop of a giant chandelier repeatedly crashing to the ground, the sound of which filled the space.