Syncopation by Pascal Sender is a responsive video work comprised of four dancing figures created through 3D painting within a VR environment. They dance in the gallery's corner window screen, reacting to passers-by moving in the street outside.

When no motion is detected, the dancer on screen slows to a standstill, awaiting new movement to interact with. In time, a new digital figure will appear hoping to draw fresh attention to the work and enable the dance to go on.

Syncopation hints at the way the attention economy operates in public spaces. The work is an interaction between spectacle and viewer, between motion tracking and animation, and between video and still images.

Syncopation forms part of our programme of outdoor works in Soho Photography Quarter

Biography

Pascal Sender studied at the Royal Academy Schools, London and the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. His solo exhibition ‘Captcha 2826’ is currently on show at Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa.