Relief

“Imagine waking up in a world still waiting to be discovered, a world in which an entirely new language needs to be invented to express your observations. A world both unknown and familiar, but without drama. And yet it stands or falls with individual values that are grounded in a new community, too. A community that is somehow already familiar, and even though you are new to it, you become a calm and focused observer.” Dan Walwin creates fictionalized spaces through intricate combinations of mediums, such as video, sound, sculpture, writing and installation. Between literal and imaginative spaces, they create a world of logic for themselves, carefully staged to form encounters with an audience. The resulting works might be playful or charged with intensity, but are always appealing to heightened senses, to offer a sense of rewarding disorientation.