Artist Talk with Jordan Wolfson and Beatrix Ruf

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. Curator Beatrix Ruf (Director of the Hartwig Art Foundation and Founding Director Hartwig Museum, Amsterdam) talks with American artist Jordan Wolfson (*1980) about his artistic practice and his new virtual reality installation "Little Room", which will be on display for the first time at the Fondation Beyeler. "Little Room" invites visitors to step into an experimental environment where they play a central role in the unfolding experience. The immersive work questions how technology shapes the way we think and perceive, challenging fundamental ways in which we see and experience our body.