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Nizam’s Pyramid

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Nizam's Pyramid (2013) by James Nizam in the Allen Lambert Galleria in Brookfield Place this week. When I first entered the Galleria from Bay St I was expecting to see a physical pyramid... until I went around to this side of the image. Pretty amazing to see and it's really challenging to look at. The pyramid looks very real, the entire image draws you in so you want to stand under the pyramid. An unusual and very fascinating image.

More about Nizam's Pyramid.
"Fleeting, liminal, and ultimately existing only as a photographic document, James Nizam’s image of a luminescent pyramid activates the architecture of the galleria at Brookfield Place. Part photograph, part sculpture, this deceptively simple geometric form invites a deconstruction of how light and shape inform our perceptions of a space. The act of viewing is challenged as the eye moves between the image and the space in which the light sculpture once existed.

Working at night, Nizam’s image was constructed through an isometric projection captured by a series of in-camera multiple exposures assembled into the shape of a pyramid. An individual beam of light was suspended high in the galleria’s cathedral-like ceiling, refracted with mirrors, and made visible to the camera through the use of mist generated by haze machines.

Commissioned for Brookfield Place, Nizam’s Pyramid is hung precisely where the complete structure would have been in a layering that pulls at the complex temporality of the work. Here, Nizam uses artificial light to create a large-scale, site-specific public installation for the first time.

The significance of the pyramid form dates back to ancient theories of perception. Nizam has often engaged with historical techniques such as the camera obscura and pinhole camera; both are typically explained diagrammatically with a pyramid whose apex begins at the viewer’s eye and extends outward to its base at the object that is being viewed. Referencing these images and ideas, Pyramid highlights spatial reasoning and photography as practices that are bound by their shared reliance on light, structuring the ways we visually process the world."