Nowhere on Earth
2019
site-specific installation
Silo City, Buffalo, NY
Nowhere on Earth redirects viewers’ vision outwards into the spaces that surround us. Mirrors, gathered from residences in the greater Buffalo area, have been installed around the Malt House.
As one passes each mirror, portions of buildings, land, and sky appear. Each vantage point creates a new composition that exists only for a moment, functioning as a live photograph. With each advancing hour, a new landscape, a new sunset, is rendered in the frame.
Together, the mirrors and the buildings form an ever-changing collage of a place and time; exactly here, but exactly not. Eventually even the mirrors themselves will change as the silver particles behind the glass begin to cloud and antique from the elements. As the rectangular boundaries dissolve, the images in the reflection will recede back into the texture of the buildings
Components:
Mirrors
Malthouse & Perot buildings
This project was chosen for the 2019 Summer Solstice Festival and made possible through a commission from Buffalo Arts Studio and Silo City. The work is now only available to tour by appointment, please contact Avye to schedule.
Special Thanks to: Joel Brenden, Chris Siano, The Tool Library, and Kevin Cain and Kate Gorman from Silo City, and all the Buffalo residents who donated their mirrors to be a part of this project.
