Sonoptil Parallels
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Year: 2015
Edition: Unique
Technique: Projection, music and insense
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."Sonoptil Parallels" is a monumental multi-sensory installation created by Norwegian artist Anne Katrine Senstad for the Dallas Aurora 2015 site-specific electronic art biennial. Curated by Julia Kaganskiy (Director of NEW INC at The New Museum, NY), the work was a centerpiece of the festival, hosted within the historic architecture of St. Paul United Methodist Church in Dallas, Texas.
Artistic Vision & Technique
The installation is an immersive environment comprising multiple projections, a spatialized soundscape, and an olfactory component. The visual element consists of a 47-minute video loop projected via a 6-projector system, transforming the interior of the church into a shifting field of light and color.
Central to the experience is the sound composition by Catherine Christer Hennix and Chora(s)san - Time-Court Mirage, titled Blues Dhikr Al-Salam (Blues Al Maqam). This complex, stereo sound environment envelops the room, creating a meditative state that resonates with the spiritual history of the space. To complete the immersion, Senstad integrated the use of incense, engaging the viewer's sense of smell to create a truly holistic "synesthetic" experience where light, sound, and aroma converge.
Context & Significance
Displayed as part of one of North America’s largest outdoor art festivals, Sonoptil Parallels highlights Senstad’s mastery of the "sensory chamber" concept. By combining high-tech digital projection with ancient sensory triggers like incense and modal music, the project explores the phenomenology of perception. The collaboration with Hennix—a legendary figure in drone and minimalist music—elevates the project from a mere visual display to a profound architectural and spiritual intervention.
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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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