I visited the Van Gogh alive exhibition during my course. I was blown away by the immersive projections in the exhibition, where Van Gogh’s paintings flashed past me one by one in time with the music. I was so amazed at how light and shadow could be expressed so movingly and beautifully.
I was impressed by this visit and after seeing the original paintings in Van Gogh’s bedroom recreated in 3D I followed the crowd into a large darkened room without any natural light and was then greeted with a huge white screen projecting Van Gogh’s paintings. All the screens surround the visitors in an immersive way.
Through my observations, I noticed a diagonal relationship between the projector and the screen arrangement in the exhibition space. The screen itself does not emit light, the paintings on the screen are created by the light shining from projectors of different sizes and distances. Here’s the sketch of this area.
It also reminded me of my own library project, where I wanted to present wall graffiti as a projection, allowing people’s creative desires to be expressed in the library as a way of solving the city’s graffiti problem. In keeping with the need to create a darker environment for the projector to work, I plan to build walls against the existing windows to let the graffiti be seen during the daytime.
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