Image: Centre Pompidou-Metz
Created in 2007, ‘Additive Inverse’ plunges the Studio into thick fog, with illuminated circles emerging from its centre. The work is presented as a piece in which the space is occupied by an atmosphere of dense mist and by circles whose light becomes visible from within it.
The presence of these circles depends on visitors’ cautious movement through the space, while the density of their occupation subtly influences the design of the interlaced circles. Their appearance is therefore described through the way visitors move and gather, with the pattern changing according to the distribution of people in the space.
Forsythe is described as an avant-garde choreographer trained in classical dance who has challenged ballet’s conventions for several decades, continually reinventing the writing of movement. For him, the body’s deployment in space becomes the primary material of a research practice in which the notion of imbalance repeatedly challenges gravity.
