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| Named in homage to the singer Janis Joplin, the sculpture is framed in this setting by the vents on the floor, and is given scale by the size of the Main Gallery in which it is installed. From certain angles, only two of the sculpture’s three steel plates are visible. From this perspective, one plate seems to support an impossible amount of weight from the other. Joplin appears to be an illusion – an image without weight. However, after a full walk around the piece, it is apparent that the sculpture actually stands because of its weight. Each slab’s tendency to collapse under gravity is played against the others’. Joplin’s open interaction with gravity establishes that the sculpture and the viewer, who can stand between its plates, exist in the same physical space.*
* This work was also a part of the exhibition Exploring Ando's Space: Art and the Spiritual. Click here to read that web catalogue entry. |
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