Dimensions: object, each: 500 x 500 x 500 mm
Copyright: © Rasheed Araeen | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: This is Rasheed Araeen's *Zero to Infinity*, a modular sculpture made of open blue cubes. It's so striking, like an infinitely expandable playground! What do you make of it? Curator: Playground is right! Imagine these steel cubes as ideas, separate yet connected. Araeen wanted viewers to interact, rearrange them. It’s a physical manifestation of endless possibilities and deconstruction of formal artistic norms, wouldn't you say? Editor: Deconstruction, yes! It seems so simple, but the potential for change is really powerful. Curator: It's about challenging power structures, inviting collaboration. A beautiful, blue revolution in form! Definitely gave me something to think about!
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Zero to Infinity originally consisted of an arrangement of one hundred latticed cubes, arranged in a square. Viewers were invited to interact with the work, freely moving the components into new configurations. For the artist, this act of breaking the symmetry of the cubes through public participation was a significant departure from minimalist practice, and an essential element of the work. A partial display of twenty-five cubes is shown here. For conservation reasons, they cannot be touched. Instead, they are accompanied by a series of images showing the cubes being rearranged in different ways. Gallery label, September 2012
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