CAPTURED MOMENTS // RHIAN HÂF
IN COLLABORATION WITH THE VENICE GLASS WEEK 2018
September 9th - 16th 2018
Capture Moments by Rhian Hâf.
In collaboration with The Venice Glass Week 2018.
Location: SPARC* Spazio Arte Contemporanea, Campo San Stefano, San Marco 2828a. Google Maps link here.
Rhian Hâf presents the exhibition Captured Moments, an exploration into glass's inherent ability to transmit and absorb light through a dynamic composition of dark shadows contrasting with rays of reflected and refracted light. Light becomes a subject of creative imagination where the artistic process involves translating and developing personal observations of silent, transient moments; the play of light and shadow within architectural spaces or a reflection projected onto a plane of glass. Incorporating photographic research, drawing and expanding further, Hâf captures these fleeting moments and uses them as a basis to develop into a body of work.
The artist aims to capture both the ordinary and the extraordinary, comparing the familiar with the unfamiliar; glass as a medium enables Hâf to translate personal ephemeral observations into visible static states, presenting them to the observer with a creative approach and offering a dialogue of perception and reflection. The ambience and transience of shadows in intentional stillness demonstrates glass's fundamental and simple capabilities as a material, which often tends to go unnoticed.
