Vessels of Light: Introspective Architectures
Exhibition
Graduate Student
Public
Tavleen Lall
Reception March 12, 2PM, followed by a Sound immersive experience by Lisa Boon, Mississauga Sound Therapy at 3 PM
100 McCaul St.
12 - 7 p.m.
100 McCaul St.
12 - 7 p.m.
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This exhibition explores glass, light, sound, and other mediums as metaphoric vessels for spiritual self-introspection, presented through intuitive, abstraction-based interdisciplinary practices.
My artistic practice is fuelled by a sustained curiosity about inner life and the multitude of events- sensory, psychological, and metaphysical- that unfold within us every second. Through immersive installations, I approach these dimensions as morphing, liminal states encountered phenomenologically.
Abstraction functions as the central language of this inquiry. The forms emerge intuitively, often inspired by seen-unseen forces of nature: light, gravity, transparency, it's creation and recreation as well as mindscapes as subtle architectures of inner states. Suspended, layered, and translucent structures create shifting fields of perception, where presence feels both material and immaterial.
Glass—blown and fused—serves as a primary material. I approach it as a metaphorical human vessel: where as projected light illuminating glass i like soul in body. further the reflections and shadows, become the mind’s projections. Sound, introduced through crystal bowls, activates the space and becomes a reminder of 'Anhad Naad', the unstruck-celestial sound within.
Ultimately, this practice seeks to create a space of return, an environment where viewers may pause, witness their own interiority, and encounter themselves beyond habitual perceptions. Here, spirituality is not a doctrine nor a distant spectacle, but as an ongoing lived experience.
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