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03MAR 2014

Kaleidoscopic Blueprints / Sophia Chang

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A spandex cave of soft geometries.

A sound field where music is math. Her installations are wormholes.

You are unnerved. You are comforted.

Music is math.

People could immerse themselves in a huge fabric cocoon at this interactive installation by architect and artist Sophia Chang.Sophia Chang stretched huge sheets of Lycra around frames to create the network of tunnels and enclosed spaces through the interior of the Invivia Gallery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The structure extended between different entrances and wrapped around the base of the gallery's spiral staircase. There were also a handful of openings, which framed windows to the spaces outside.

"The softened geometries of this expansive fabric insertion frame both people and their context, while confounding the experience of interior and exterior, wall and room, hiding and revealing places to be found and explored," said Chang. The inside of the space was separated into two disconnected halves.

Visitors could occupy either sides, meaning they could see the silhouettes of other people behind the dividing layer of fabric.

According to the designer, the experience was intended to represent the feeling of being on the other side of a wall to something unknown - an area known as poché. "Here poché receives a more ambiguous reinterpretation," said Chang.