Melvin Moti. Hyperspace

2014 01 31 — 2014 03 10 at Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius
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Friday, 31 January at 6pm Contemporary Art Centre (Vilnius) opens Melvin Moti’s exhibition “Hyperspace” offering viewers the chance to contemplate the fourth dimension: a geometrical space beyond human experience. The exhibition is accompanied by the artist’s book, MU, which analyses the historical relations between two very different cultures and the unknown. It’s two chapters relate how mathematicians, writers and architects have tried to imagine and visualise the fourth dimension in the West in late XIX and early XX centuries, and delineates the history of Buddhism. It is from Buddhist philosophy that the book borrows it’s title: “mu” is a word without any specific meaning that is often given as an answer when a real answer is impossible or avoided. In this book, different schools of thought relate to each other, meet similar questions, contemplate dead alleys, depart from the teachings of their predecessors, find some or another use and revisit their origins. Melvin Moti’s film The Eightfold Dot seeks a visual language with which to render obscure phenomena perceptible as a projected moving image.

Curator: Virginija Januškevičiūtė

Melvin Moti (b. 1977) studied at the Academy of Fine Art and Design in Tilburg from 1995 to 1999 and later worked at De Ateliers in Amsterdam, where he is now an advisor. In 2006 he received the Charlotte Kohler Prijs and the J.C. van Lanschot Prijs. His work is widely known internationally: recently he had solo exhibitions at the National Museums Scotland, Kunsthalle Lisbon and Muklam Luxemburg; his films Eigenlicht (2011) and Eigengrau (2012) were part of the 55th International Art Exhibition entitled The Encyclopaedic Palace organised by the Venice Biennale.

The film lasts 24 minutes and is screened on the hour:

Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays: 1pm–7pm
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays: 5pm–7pm

The artist’s book MU is available for sale at the CAC ticket office, and for reference in the exhibition room.

More information about the exhibition find here.