Scanning images of crumpled aluminum foil, artist Pae White composed this striking main stage curtain for the Oslo Opera House.
White worked with digital images
of aluminum foil, which reflect and adopt the colors of the dark timbered
auditorium. The images were transferred to a computer driven loom for the
bespoke production of the curtain. White describes her work, “Metafoil,” as a
contemporary take on the centuries-old tradition of weaving, but with a digital
twist. “Metafoil takes advantage of the captive gaze of the audience,
introducing a foil, a false reflection, an illusion of depth, a novel
typography that disrupts expectation and challenges perception,” says White.
The curtain plays with shifts of scale with its rich texture of colors: a few
feet away, individual threads begin to form patterns. From the audience’s
perspective, it appears as a fantastically over scaled metallic,
three-dimensional sculpture.
Pae White is a multimedia artist known for reinterpreting familiar
encounters and ordinary items—like animals, books, advertisements, shopping
bags, and plants—and revealing what she calls the "artfulness"
of the natural and the everyday. She employs ornate craftsmanship along with inventive materials to
create objects and installations that transcend traditional boundaries between
art and design.
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