New York's AC Institute presents an exhibition of immersive psychedelic landscape with a new video installation by Canadian artist Annie Briard. "Second Sight". This exhibition refl­ects the problematics of perception by taking the viewer on a voyage through the high desert, where the seen eventually breaks apart and the limits between physical reality, head trips and visions from beyond become blurred. Joshua Tree is seen through disused military optics or prisms, responding to an ancient theory claiming that we see the world as a result of minuscule crystals within our eyes. As military optics frame perspectives towards specific ends, so too might the eye and its crystalline components. The exhibition presents an immersive video installation alongside prismatic holograms, color-changing photographs and sound.

Annie Briard is a Canadian intermedia artist whose work challenges how we make sense of the world through visual perception. Creating lens-based and light-focused works, she explores the intersections between perception paradigms in psychology, neuroscience and existentialism. Her work has been exhibited internationally in galleries, festivals and as public art commissions and has been supported by awards from the Canada Council for the Arts. Briard currently teaches at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

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