Anthony McCall’s Crossing 2016, installed at GOMA for ‘A World View: The Tim Fairfax Gift’, December 2016 / © Anthony McCall / Photograph: N Harth, QAGOMA
An architecture of light slowly unfolds within the darkness. White light is projected onto the floor in two pairs of beams: a near-full ellipse and a straight-line dance together in one pairing; an ellipse and curved line in the other. Like graphic code, the simple geometry of these ‘drawings’ can be read clearly on the dark carpet, but what is surprising is the way each long beam of light appears convincingly solid within the haze-filled gallery.
The sound of a wave moves slowly through the space, like a slow whoosh, or deep movement of breath. It is not recorded from the natural world but composed from white noise. Like the lines of light we see, what we hear is also an abstraction.