2022 | 3D Web Experience
Ephemeral Grounds at The Uzbekistan National Pavillion | Venice Biennale
Ephemeral Grounds, by conceptual artist Ergin Çavuşoğlu (b. 1968, Targovishte, Bulgaria), is a web-based interactive sculpture that transforms textile into terrain both spatially and metaphorically. The immersive experience invites viewers to virtually navigate the labyrinthine patterns and abstract architectures of an Anatolian carpet rendered as a dynamic three-dimensional landscape.
Building on Çavuşoğlu’s oeuvre of anamorphic drawings and sound and video installations, the work beckons travelers to tread carefully across an engulfing liminal space that references historical and contemporary ideas related to Islamic-Venetian trade, migration, transculturality, and empire.
The site-specific piece launched as part of The Panoptic Garden, a public program hosted by the Uzbekistan Pavilion at the 59th International Venice Biennale (“Dixit Algorizmi—The Garden of Knowledge”).
Credits
Ephemeral Grounds, 2022
Ergin Çavuşoğlu, Sophia Baker, and Ami Mehta (Creative Technologists)
Curated by Sara Raza and Andris Brinkmanis
3D Animation and Video, Interactive Web Sculpture
Commissioned by The Uzbekistan National Pavillion
Courtesy of the Artists