Meow Wolf‘s House of Eternal Return in Santa Fe has unveiled three new permanent portals by artists Lauren YS, Jacob Fisher and Virgil Ortiz.
“While the House of Eternal Return is a permanent exhibition, it is also a living, constantly changing exhibition,” said Susan Garbett, general manager of the House of Eternal Return.
Virgil Ortiz‘s new installation is titled ‘Sirens: Secret Passkeys & Portals’. It features characters from his ongoing project ‘Revolt 1680/2180’.
This envisions a dystopian future 500 years after the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, with time-travellers returning to help their ancestors.
New immersive installations
“The freedom to touch, feel, take pictures, and explore an immersive installation opens up many possibilities,” said Ortiz.
“It has challenged me to adapt to the idea of having people interact with the displays, decode patterns, listen to the soundtrack, and wander around it all.”
Lauren YS, aka Squidlicker, is an LA-based artist. Their work is inspired by dreams, death, mythology, comics, love, sex, psychedelia, animation, and their Asian-American heritage.
The immersive installation, called ‘The Ancestral Crypt’, is a two-storey room accessed via a round portal from the forest.
“This space is meant to act as a haven for fluidity – a temple to the liminal, to bring into materiality a space for that which defies absolution. An homage to the queer, to the non-binary, to the shifting, monstrous and in-process,” said Lauren YS.
“Living, constantly changing exhibition”
New York-based artist Jacob Fisher‘s large-scale installation is titled ‘until I see you again’. It can be found in the depths of the exhibition space covering ‘Space Sphere’, a giant interstellar ball.
“As you enter the installation, shape, structure, color, detail, and light grasp your attention,” said Fisher.
“My hope is that, for a moment, in this odd, beautiful world, you forget your efforts to order the chaos of the everyday. For a moment, you are filled with tranquility.”
Meow Wolf recently revealed the Texas-based artists for its fourth permanent installation, opening in Grapevine in 2023.
Meow Wolf is also launching its fifth permanent exhibition in Houston in 2024. The new venues will join Convergence Station in Denver, the House of Eternal Return and Omega Mart at AREA15 in Las Vegas.
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