Little Worlds

Inside the Wales Millennium Centre hang a whole row the these giant balls. Temp exhibition of some kind, but they do look interesting.

Relics is a multifaceted contemporary art project based around a series of short term, publicly accessible, site-specic art installations featuring a newly developed photographic medium known as the photosphere.

Since the summer of 2014 Cardiff based visual artist Matt Wright has been travelling across the country visiting Cadw sites and capturing 360° viewpoints of Wales’ unique and varied historical landscapes. From these high-resolution images, the artist has created a number of spherical photographic sculptures that are subsequently installed back at their exact point of capture within the environments they document.

It could be argued that reinstalling the captured viewpoint at its exact point of origin creates a unique symbiotic disharmony between the recorded and the real. This challenges the viewer's visual perception, and in doing so, ultimately offers an unexpected perspective to reect upon the physical spaces engaged with, and the function and truth of photography itself as a recording mechanism.

The work on display documents the first eight photospherical installations to have been undertaken and include the following locations: Tintern Abbey & Valle Crucis Abbey, Blaenavon Ironworks & Porthgain Harbour, Pentre Ifan Burial Chamber & Din Lligwy Hut Group, Caernarfon Castle & Raglan Castle