Ricochet

Ricochet was a site-specific laser installation Matthew Schreiber made for Day for Night 2017. Single-diode lasers, individually aimed, drew a field of straight beams through haze so that a room seemed to stand inside the post-office building: walls, corners and thresholds described entirely in light, with no material surface. Visitors could walk into the field and through its planes, and the geometry held only as long as they read it as architecture.

Schreiber, who spent years working with James Turrell before establishing his own practice, uses lasers and holography to test how far perception can be made to construct space from nothing solid. The work is documented here through the artist's studio site, NYLON's coverage of the edition and the surviving curatorial record; the archive holds no photograph of the Houston installation.