James Turrell Bends the Light of a Mexican Sunrise

The legendary American light artist James Turrell’s new installation, Encounter, is now featured at Culiacán Botanical Gardens in Sinaloa, Mexico. Like many Turrell works, Encounter plays with viewers' perception of light, inviting you to step inside an observatory lodged in a hill. Limited exposure to natural light via the space-age gazebo is juxtaposed with Turrell’s own programmed lighting within the chamber. Thus, the goal of the installation is to intensify the colors of the sky through manipulation of natural light, supplemented with artificial lighting.

Turrell is best-known for his light artworks, and, perhaps more importantly, how they behave within spaces. According to a quote from his website, “I make spaces that apprehend light for our perception, and in some ways gather it, or seem to hold it…my work is more about your seeing than it is about my seeing, although it is a product of my seeing.”

Check out more images of Encounter below:

Via Juxtapoz

According to the website, Encounter is the first public skyspace in México. It belongs to Colección Isabel y Agustín Coppel A.C. Click here to learn more.

Read more coverage on James Turrell in the links below:

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James Turrell's Skyspace Radiates Color And Transforms The Sky