The Fondation Beyeler is pleased to premiere Little Room, a new virtual reality (VR) installation by American artist Jordan Wolfson (*1980). This immersive work, on display for the first time at the Fondation Beyeler, invites visitors to step into an experimental environment where they play a central role in the unfolding experience.
Upon entering the exhibition space, visitors are paired either with a companion of their choice or with a stranger, and after an individual 3D full-body scan, they are transported into a virtual space, within which, each participant sees themselves through the body of the other, leading to increasingly strange and disorienting physical and spatial distortions.
Little Room delves into the complex intersection of real, virtual, and imaginary realms. Wolfson’s work examines the darker aspects of the human experience while raising profound existential questions about consciousness, identity, and physical and intellectual negation. With Little Room the artist pushes the potential of VR to create a unique encounter that goes beyond conventional understandings of the medium.
