In/Visibility is a new interactive artwork that allows the viewer to become a creator by directly engaging with the piece.
Using a polarising filter similar to those within bee eyes; it allows you to admire Gustav Klimt’s famous painting ‘Portrait of Frau Adele Bloch Bauer, reproduced in two states – visible, and invisible at the same time. The beautiful kaleidoscope of colours is only revealed through a pair of polarizing sunglasses or filter.
The piece has been shown at the Science Museum, the Natural History Museum, the Imperial College Festival and the University of Brussels.
This Saturday it will be on show at Light and Dark Matters, a unique 24 hour event at Tate Modern, during which leading artists, scientists, philosophers, theorists and the public come together to debate, share and uncover our contemporary experience of light, dark and dark matter.
About the artist
Vinita Khanna is an artist whose work deploys a language of visual force across disciplines, including sculpture, painting, installation,collage and photography. She studied art at Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich as well as St Martins and Goldsmiths College in London. Her work has been exhibited in institutions and art galleries around the world since the 1990’s, notably at the United Nations, the V&A as well as at the Royal Institute, Imperial College London, and the Science and Natural History Museums. She was awarded the Peabody award jointly with Architects Ash Sakula for affordable housing design.