New group exhibition at University of Waterloo, CA, ‘Beauty of Physics’, Canada
Artist statement: © Carl Gopalkrishnan 2007. Shanghai Romance (digital print). Re-writing classic narratives with a quantum lens. Beauty of Physics Art Prize 2007 University of Waterloo
From previous academic research into visual narratives, I have been struck by how the internet has challenged our way of reading and perceiving the story/information. This opened up the idea that science influences how we ‘read’ and experience reality. In my recent readings about quantum physics, from popularized publications on concepts such as entanglement theory, I started to think about the gap in sciences knowledge about how the quantum reality affects the macro reality of daily life, and classical mathematics/physics properties.
In Shanghai Romance, Cathy and Heathcliff have been ‘reborn’ as a Chinese couple re-enacting the possibilities of their failed romance in a bar in 1930s Shanghai. The image is composed of scans of hand cut stencils, and distorted images from an old movie poster and my own painting Cathy, Heathcliff, Cathy. By using Photoshop to rearrange the visual narrative, I have tried to evoke this feeling of ‘falling out of time’ that is needed to conceive of ‘many worlds’.
