Artwork: Kristen Mosher Soul Mate 180° (The Other Side is Here), LACMA, 2019
Kristen Mosher’s art project Soul Mate 180° (The Other Side is Here) is an ongoing venture, or adventure.
At the core of the project is the merging of two concepts. The first is the notion of a “geographic soul mate” defined as “an intimacy created by acknowledging distances” and “a relationship with the other side of earth not as a polarity or opposite but as a fluid, shifting continuum that extends within and beyond the planet”. The second is the antipodes—the opposite of where you find yourself. The word “antipodes” originates from the Latin idea of “feet against our feet”, of inhabitants on the other side of the globe. These foundational concepts shape Mosher’s project that seeks to explore points on the earth separated by 180°.
At the current iteration of her project showing at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Mosher has created a sculptural rendering, sourced via satellite imagery and utilising 3D printing, of a specific segment of the waves of the Indian Ocean identified as the antipode of LACMA.
Mosher states: “The strength of Soul Mate 180° rests in the tension between what can be seen and what is imagined.”
Just imagine: your feet where they stand right now, and what’s on the other side of the globe.
Reaching the antipodes is a tumbling down the rabbit hole with its upside down logic that’s about being able to wonder what’s on the other side than truly knowing or experiencing it first-hand. Yet Mosher’s project facilitates such an imagining, a simulated reality, simply by offering a glimpse—this tunnelling to view a wave on a vast sea.
(source: www.kristenmosher.com)