September 12, 2024
Doug Wheeler
Day Night Day
David Zwirner
537 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011
davidzwirner.com
The exhibition presents DN ND WD 180 EN – NY 24 (2024), which is among Wheeler’s most ambitious installations to date. Upon entering the gallery, the viewer first encounters two luminous, rectangular thresholds or “walls” of light, which function as points of entry into an expansive environment that simulates the experience of limitless space, or a “ganzfeld,” where light appears to shift from day to night and back again. The viewer’s perception is heightened to a degree in which, as the artist articulates, “space appears as a volume, almost as matter.”
