Counter at ILLUSION

Counter by Anthony Murphy (IE) is a video-mapped structure designed to trick the viewer's perception as a modern, animated version of the technique of trompe l'oeil, which translates from French as "deceive the eye". Trompe l'oeil is an art technique that uses realistic imagery in order to create the illusion that the object exists in three dimensions. Through the projection of digital imagery onto physical objects, static structures are given the illusion of moving light sources, transformed geometry, reflection, and transparency—before reconfiguring and reconstructing themselves in a variety of new possibilities and permutations. The work aims to temporarily suspend the viewer's reality by forging relationships between the digital and physical elements of the piece that are at once symbiotic and contradictory.

ILLUSION: NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS
11.07.13--29.09.13 at Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin.