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Cerith Wyn Evans: A Community Predicated on the Basic Fact Nothing Really Matters (2013)
How does the encounter between mind-altering experiences and paradigm-shifting theories affect our perception of reality?
Hovering in space is an effervescent and volatile structure with an indefinable shape and a diameter of six metres. The neon work is only seemingly abstract: its two main elements refer to the representations of the Higgs boson and the diagram of the chemical structure of LSD.
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How does the encounter between mind-altering experiences and paradigm-shifting theories affect our perception of reality?
Hovering in space is an effervescent and volatile structure with an indefinable shape and a diameter of six metres. The neon work is only seemingly abstract: its two main elements refer to the representations of the Higgs boson and the diagram of the chemical structure of LSD.
After formulating the theory of the Higgs boson, the questions underlying its existence led to research lasting more than forty years and finally to the construction of the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Also called “the God particle”, the Higgs boson provides access to an understanding of the invisible, universe-wide field that gave mass to all matter just after the Big Bang, forcing particles to coalesce into stars and planets.
Cerith Wyn Evans’s imposing oeuvre is dedicated to the exploration of the visibility and real-world relevance of incomprehensible, mind-altering, and (until confirmed) merely theoretical concepts such as the Higgs boson. In his neon work displayed here, the slightly distorted chemical structure of LSD is superimposed over the representations of the trajectories of high-energy particle beams, as if two ontological forms of reality were about to collide. Indeed, such a collision has the potential to generate new perspectives and new worlds.
Borbála Szalai
