Gallery: A Trippy Video Installation That'll Melt Your Optic Nerves
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Olivier Ratsi's "Onion Skin" is an audio-visual installation that bends viewers' perception of time and space. *Image: Olivier Ratsi*
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The installation is projected onto two 19.5 x 10 foot walls that sit next to each other at a right angle. *Image: Olivier Ratsi*
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For the best effect, Ratsi recommends standing 5 meters away from the screen, directly in the center. *Image: Olivier Ratsi*
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"When the spectator stays at the specific point of view, the illusion of a new dimension within the installation slowly appears,” Ratsi explains. *Image: Olivier Ratsi*
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The 14 minute installation is the most recent of the Paris-based artist’s explorations into bending reality though lighting and video. *Image: Olivier Ratsi*
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The repetition of the shapes help viewers distance from reality, almost as though they’re being sucked into a geometric twilight zone. *Image: Olivier Ratsi*
