HORIZON by Liz Wierzbicki

HORIZON

Liz Wierzbicki uses sculpture, video, and sound to explore the mind-body dilemma. What is the relationship between consciousness in the human mind and the brain as a part of the physical body? How does the matter of the brain affect or create thoughts, emotions, or experiences? How do technology and nature transform the self? In Horizon, her findings to these questions are often expressed using imagery of happenings in the sky.

One of those phenomena is the Sun: though always present, our perception and experience of its presence is cyclical and changes as we move in space and time. Likewise, Wierzbicki relates this phenomena to the functions of the mind: the birth of a new thought, reoccurring emotions, and the way our perceptual experiences are dependent on our physical placement and surroundings.

In Hypnosis and Post Hypnosis, Wierzbicki’s hallucinatory use of sunrise and sunset harnesses their universal allure to tempt, transfix, and transport. Choreographed along pacing, broken paths, and emanating from a material world, their audacious and fleeting presence mimics the human emotional state. A once reliable and familiar light makes looping, intermittent appearances instead.

The spring and summer months of 2020 brought broad rediscovery of both the natural and virtual environments as places for refuge. Horizon holds us in that liminal space, hopeful, with an enhanced capacity to respond to new realities on the rise. 

Liz Wierzbicki lives and works in Indianapolis, IN. She received her BA in Mathematics and Fine Art from Augustana College and her MFA in Visual Art from Herron School of Art and Design. She is a co-founder and the Program Director at Cat Head Press: Printshop and Artist Cooperative, with two locations in Indianapolis.

September 4, 2020 – May 2, 2021

Open to the public M-F: 8am – 5pm

Indy Innovation Building 1
1210 Waterway Blvd
Indianapolis, IN 46202

Exhibition Images © 2020 Eric Lubrick
Horizon is a curatorial collaboration with Braydee Euliss, Brent Aldrich, and 60 on Center.