Cubiculum Blue2023

The Sensory Chamber I-VII / Cubiculum Red + Blue is a series of installation video works for exhibition, institutional, museum and gallery spaces. The series started in 2019 as part of Senstad’s solo exhibition Beckoned to Blue, and continued in new chapters and installation formats to Senstad’s exhibition Radical Light at Kai Art Center in Estonia and Seinajoki Kunsthall in Finland in 2021. The most recent iteration the 7th version in the series, was titled Cubiculum Red + Blue, and exhibited at Kunsthal Regelbau 411 in Denmark in 2023, a repurposed WWII Bunker turned art center for light and sound art. Here the former ammunition bunker’s dual chambers were transformed into a red and a blue light bathed entropic space filled with water as reflective element.

The video works create a dialgoue between the cosmology of perception, the scientific realms of luminal velocity and it’s visual poetic interpretations, - and an enveloping meditation on the lyrical ephemerality of light, where light is defined by a topology of verticality and a horizontal space, resulting in a monument of light and color.

Entering a physically enclosed chamber, or a room with a central bed of salt reflecting sparkles and monochromatic cellular transformations, the viewer is invited to experience the internal vastness as existing within our infinite spheres within our body and mind, emphasizing the psychological realms and the dream space. The video compositions expand and contract, through elongated shapes and circular forms resembling human shape in dissolution and manifestation, as the glitch like particles dance between voids of nothingness and mass as noise and speckles in ascension, with a magnetized force. In concert with sequences of transformational luminal space, the sound composition creates a floating spatial sensation, hypnotic and engulfing, that moves through composer JG Thirlwells sonic universe.