Portal for Perpetuity
Projects
Year: 2020
Edition: Unique
Technique: Neon tubes, semi transprent mirrors, plexiglas, transformers, stone and aluminum base.
Framed: No
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All artworks on IdeelArt are original, signed, delivered directly from the artist's studio, and come with a certificate of authenticity."Portal for Perpetuity" is a sculptural light installation created by Norwegian artist Anne Katrine Senstad in 2020. Described by the artist as a "contained source of infinite regenerative energies," this series of works utilizes neon and reflective surfaces to create an immersive, boundless experience of light and color. Designed to be adaptable to both public plazas and private interior spheres, the work functions as a physical gateway into the infinitesimal.
Artistic Vision & Technique
The installation is constructed from a combination of neon tubes, semi-transparent mirrors, and Plexiglas, all anchored by a structural base of stone or aluminum. By placing light sources within a mirrored chamber, Senstad employs the "infinity mirror" effect to dissolve the physical boundaries of the sculpture.
The technique creates a sense of deep space and perpetual repetition, echoing Senstad’s long-standing fascination with the phenomenology of perception. The viewer is not merely looking at an object but is invited to experience a "present and integrated" encounter with pure color and light frequencies. The work oscillates between being a solid architectural object and a spectral, infinite void, challenging the viewer’s sense of spatial orientation.
Context & Significance
Created during a period of global reflection in 2020, Portal for Perpetuity highlights Senstad’s ability to merge minimalist aesthetics with complex optical engineering. The project represents a evolution of her practice from flat surface projections to three-dimensional "light containers." Whether installed in a lush garden or a minimalist corporate lobby, the work acts as a meditative focal point, inviting the public to pause and engage with the transformative power of light as a primary life force.
Bring Art to Your Space
This project illustrates the ability of our artists to produce monumental, custom works for public, corporate, or private environments. IdeelArt invites you to commission a unique, site-specific installation—whether a sculptural neon "portal," a light-based chamber, or an immersive mural—tailored to the architectural and emotional character of your building or landscape. For inquiries regarding in-situ projects or monumental abstract works, we invite you to contact our curatorial team.
New York and Oslo-based Norwegian photographer Anne Katrine Senstad’s work concentrates on sensorial responses to light, color, and form, transcendental philosophies, and social-political environmental initiatives.
Education
Anne Katrine Senstad was educated at the University of California at Berkeley, earning a BFA in Photography at Parsons School of Design and concentrating on film at the New School for Social Research in New York, which prepared her for a multi-disciplinary practice: installation, video, photography, neon sculpture, and site-specific work.
Technique
Senstad produces photographic C-prints from scanned color film negatives.
Her most recent (2020) solo exhibition at Freight + Volume in New York, Color Kinesthesia 6A42.2, in collaboration with diverse materiality, is in dialogue with Rothko’s color field paintings....
Color Kinesthesia implies the body’s response to color transitions, made possible through photographing color film negatives. As a photographer, Senstad captures a moment of light and color from an interactive installation, weaving together a cohesive multidisciplinary practice.
In contrast, the geometric phenomena of ubiquitous triangular orientation versus changing color combinations in Concrete Planes (2019-2020) speaks more of scientific and philosophical investigation rather than a transcendental experience like in the Cosmosis Collages series.
This series was created to complement Senstad’s neon light installation Elements and represents oneness with the cosmic universe as a path of enlightenment. The Suprematist and Constructivist movements inspired her, while the use of modern technology and materiality produced new visual forms.
Inspiration
Senstad’s process begins with research on perception and the cognitive response to light, sound, and color. Her clever use of neon commercial materials expresses poetic humor and articulates a literal and critical intent.
With Forget Flavin, a white neon sculpture referencing Dan Flavin, shown at Freight + Volume, Senstad straightforwardly marks her own territory in a male-dominated light art genre....
In Through The Spectrum at Athr Gallery, Jeddah, a light art exhibition in the Middle East, Senstad presents alongside James Turrell. Although she explains her work as a perceptive cognitive response to light, sound, and color, rather than Turrell’s spiritual source, it’s difficult not to compare.
What Senstad and Turrell share is an invitation to the transcendental experience.
Senstad’s installations are immersive and interactive, evoking a psychological response to light, sound, and color, rather than an interpretation of the sublime.
She seeks to represent her sensorial experimentation and investigation as unique compared to her male contemporaries.
Exhibitions
Senstad has exhibited extensively in solo and group shows throughout the United States, Norway, and worldwide.
Galleries
Kristin Hjellegjerde, London
Pink Gallery, Seoul
SL Gallery, New York City
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