Whoosh – Kay Churcher
Whoosh (working title) is a work focussed on the physical sensation and experience of air. Bringing us out of our heads and away from our dominant senses, returning our attention to the body and to the sensation of feeling. It is in this physical sensation where we can find peace, calm, and meditation.
A popular method of meditation is to focus on the rhythm of one’s breathing. The combination of the regular rhythm and the internal physical sensation allows your mind to focus on this and away from the turbulent thoughts occupying your brain. This work externalises this rhythmic air, to focus on the sensation of air brushing over one’s body and the sound of it rushing past you. It aims to pull focus to the present, where only the now exists and memories of the past and thoughts of the future hold no place.
Kay Churcher is an installation artist working with spatial awareness and the senses. Born in 1996 in Edinburgh, she studied ArtScience at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague where she now resides. She creates site-specific immersive installations exploring the fleeting nature of experience and subjectivity. She employs a wide array of new media and sculpture to create her works while adapting each one to its surrounding environment. Using light, sound, projection, and architectural constructions she creates individual experiences for people to explore, drawing the attention to an often overlooked aspect of themselves or their environment.
Curated by Anastasia Loginova
Video by Erfan Abdi
