See Lena Lapschina’s Fluorescent Installation At Open Source Starting January 10

You’ll have a chance to think about choices and the opportunities missed by having to choose at an upcoming installation at Open Source Gallery.

Lena Lapschina‘s “Yes/No” opens with a reception this Saturday, January 10 from 7-9pm at the gallery at 306 17th Street. An artist based in Austria, her installation features two light objects made from 16 fluorescent tubes, all illuminated against a stark background, which two choices presented: “Yes” and “No.”

From Open Source:

Visitors are welcomed into a space where they may move freely between dualities without reaching a decision. However, while the viewer is free to choose, one may not have the choices of “Yes” and “No” simultaneously. On one side there is the affirmative of “Yes,” but by simply turning around, it now becomes “No.” In “Yes/No,” opposing ideas do not clash, but still remain on opposite sides of the coin.

The show runs through February 4.