Peter Kleman

Colour is never experienced in isolation. It is always relational and constantly shifting in response to its context. A colour has no fixed identity. It borrows and lends. It becomes warm or cool depending on its neighbour. Colour cannot be separated from its spatial and temporal context. The ambient light of the space such as daylight or overhead lighting shapes what you perceive. The colours you see are bound to this moment. At the same time, colour is culturally-coded and charged with meanings that are not inherent in the colour itself but that arise through social and visual practices. This means that colour is not only perceived but also interpreted. Two people in the same room at different times do not see the same installation.

This installation consists of two projectors casting overlapping, algorithmically-generated colour fields onto a wall and a floor. The colours shift continuously and independently. There is no image, no text, no sound. Only colour, light, and the space between them. When the viewer enters, they become a participant. The colour falls across clothing, skin, and shadows differently than it falls on plaster or concrete. The material on which the colour lands becomes part of the colour itself.