
Vision
A monumental event appears suspended between explosion and implosion, presence and dispersal.
- Artist
- David Spriggs
- Date
- 2010
- Dimensions
- 264 × 315 × 91 cm
104 × 124 × 36 in - Materials
- Acrylic paint on layered transparent sheets
- Selected presentations
- Chroniques Biennale, Marseille; Sharjah Art Museum; Grand Rapids Art Museum; Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery; Espace Virtuel, Saguenay; Arsenal Contemporary Montréal
Vision presents an immense white formation at the instant of its becoming or collapse. The image may be expanding outward, drawing inward, or held at the unstable threshold between the two. This uncertainty is central. The same structure can appear as emission or absorption, beginning or ending, event or afterimage. From the principal viewpoint, separate marks cohere into a luminous volume.
Move away and the apparent body disperses, revealing the intervals from which it was assembled. The title names both the faculty of sight and the capacity to project what is not yet present. The viewer’s eye becomes the site where fragments acquire direction, scale, and force. White intensifies this ambiguity. It can register as radiance, cloud, impact, or overexposure, a concentration of visibility approaching disappearance. Vision gives an event compelling presence while withholding a final account of what has occurred.
Video Documentation: Vision



An image without a fixed body
The sculpture changes with every movement around it. From the front, its fragments resolve into depth and momentum. From the sides, coherence gives way to the edges of the transparent planes. The viewer can therefore occupy two positions in relation to the same work: witness to an extraordinary apparition and analyst of the perceptual system that produces it.
This oscillation gives Vision its force. The work does not ask the viewer to choose between image and object. It holds both in suspension, making uncertainty part of the experience of seeing.










