Ray Chang: Interlaced
Exhibition dates: December 15, 2024 to January 10, 2025
Reception: December 15, 2024 6 PM - 9 PM
Interlaced Presented in Automata’s storefront windows, Interlaced is artist Ray Chang’s kinetic shadow projection of an abstract textile factory with animated elements. Interlaced is a “building card” project inspired by the histories of New England's former textile mills. Reflecting on its industrial foundations and their impact on manufacturing, craft, labor, and early American identity, Chang delves into these narratives through play and experimentation.
By connecting weaving with barrier-grid animation , the sculptures are activated as light passes through them in motion, allowing viewers to observe the alternation of lines that create animated illusions. These illusions draw on motifs of water, steam, and textile patterns to evoke a factory setting.
This project was completed in residency at The Factory on Willow - Manchester, NH
About the Artist:
Ray Chang is a Taiwanese-American artist, currently based in Los Angeles. His work plays with the intersection of kinetic sculpture and animation, experimenting with proto-cinematic ideas and motorized movement that take on various forms including sculpture, mechanical design, and installation.