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The illuminated installation encourages communal calm and hope amid crisis
New York-based Ekene Ijeoma – artist, designer, academic and founder of the Poetic Justice group at MIT Media Lab – has delivered an immersive installation in Downtown Brooklyn titled Breathing Pavilion. Consisting of 20 illuminated, inflatable, 2.7m-high columns arranged in a circle, the pavilion aims to provide a sanctuary at a time marked by the continuing crises of the Covid-19 pandemic and systemic racial injustice in the United States.
Using computational design, the two-tone columns slowly modulate in brightness to illustrate a deep breathing technique designed to bring calm. Visitors are invited to breathe in time with the changing light. ‘Between the ongoing struggles in the racial and political movements in the United States and the Covid-19 pandemic, it can be difficult to find the time and space to breathe deeply and rest well,’ says Ijeoma.
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