installations

Sabre Esler’s installation presents three paintings that explore the synergy between art and science, where elegance and symmetry meet. Featuring a wallcovering and relief elements designed by Esler explicitly for this installation, it presents a study of energy waves, mathematical codes, and musical ciphers, allowing her to question the human experience of personal perspectives and narratives, which create imaginary constructs defining who we become through logical and illogical choices or paths. It aims to provide a calm, meditative background in juxtaposition to manufactured disruptors.

Walk inside and let the clouds take you into the possibilities of where you will go. This site specific installation explores decision making, memories, creative process, making dreams come true. The artist also explores the double entendre “cloud”. Clouds are made of water vapor, yet we now understand digital clouds as data collection. Therefore the title of “All My Ideas are in the Cloud” refers to the cloud of ideas forming in our heads but also the digital collection of ideas found on the computers and devices we use every day

White Lies

The color white connotes pure or harmless, but science has proven that lying, even lies that seems trivial, cause a person’s brain to adapt to a life of dishonesty. Neuroscientists, Garrett, Lazzaro, Ariely and Sharot completed a study showing that

“Dishonesty is an integral part of our social world, influencing domains ranging from finance and politics to personal relationships. Anecdotally, digressions from a moral code are often described as a series of small breaches that grow over time.”

These scientists proved through empirical evidence, including functional MRI, that a gradual escalation of self-serving dishonesty reveal a neural mechanism supporting it. An example played out in recent news, Hope Hicks, the President’s Press Secretary admitted to spreading white lies for President Trump. This installation takes a look at the tangled web of white lies and how they begin, by stretching the binary code of right and wrong, to a complete distortion of order. The question remains, does anyone tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?

“Oh! What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.”

Marmion, Sir Walter Scot

“Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations.”

Daniel Kahneman, Thinking. Fast and Slow

Last year was a year of upheaval for the entire world. This affected my practice as I listened to the unrest outside my studio. While trying to focus on creativity I found that the emotional toll was undeniable.