LOCATION | Amsterdam, The Netherlands

YEAR | May 2025

TYPE | Spatial Experience Installation

SERVICES | Spatial Experience Design, Artistic Research, Interaction Design, Material Exploration, Visual Storytelling, Installation Design

MEDIUM | Modelled clay on painted canvas, rotating installation

CONCEPT |
RGB – Clay Frequencies is an interactive spatial experience developed from an artistic research investigation into perception, identity, and cyclical psychological states. Translating research into a participatory installation, the project explores how spatial interaction can make internal conditions tangible. Through a rotating mechanism inspired by the logic of a lucky wheel, participants navigate between two interconnected states - extroversion and introversion - transforming abstract psychological processes into an embodied spatial journey.

SPATIAL EXPERIENCE |
The installation is conceived as a perceptual device activated through movement. Two relief panels form opposing yet complementary experiential conditions, arranged within a rotational system that encourages discovery, anticipation, and reflection. Rather than presenting a fixed narrative, the installation invites participants to physically engage with the work, allowing chance and interaction to determine their encounter. The act of turning becomes a transition between outward and inward modes of perception, positioning the participant as both observer and protagonist within the experience.

SPATIAL STRATEGY |
The project investigates how orientation, movement, and interaction can influence perception. The rotating structure creates a continuous loop between opposing conditions, establishing a closed experiential circuit where each state gains meaning through its relationship to the other. By combining physical engagement with symbolic visual language, the installation transforms a static object into an active environment that unfolds through participation.

MATERIALITY & ATMOSPHERE |
Clay serves as both material and communication medium. Terracotta red, powdered blue pigment, and sage green references translate RGB color frequencies into physical form, creating a sensory language that bridges materiality and psychology. Relief geometries generate subtle shadow play and tactile depth, while color operates as an atmospheric anchor that guides interpretation and emotional association. Together, these elements create an immersive field where meaning emerges through sensory engagement rather than direct representation.

INTERACTION & PARTICIPATION |
The experience is completed through the participant's action. By rotating the installation, visitors activate a sequence of choices, encounters, and interpretations that continuously reshape the reading of the work. Meaning is not predetermined but constructed through movement, perception, and personal reflection. The installation therefore functions as both spatial experience and research tool, exploring how participation can reveal the dynamic relationship between self, environment, and perception.

REFLECTION |
RGB – Clay Frequencies demonstrates how artistic research can inform the design of participatory spatial experiences. By transforming a coded material language into an interactive installation, the project explores how space, movement, and materiality can communicate psychological conditions beyond verbal language. The result is an experiential environment where perception becomes the medium through which meaning is produced