Image credit: Paolina Hurry

Interval

Yorkshire Sculpture Park

2026


Interval is a site-specific audiovisual installation exhibited at Yorkshire Sculpture Park in August 2026. Using sound, projection, and sculpture, the work explores the interconnectivity of the surrounding landscape and the boundaries between the human and more-than-human entities that occupy it.

Revealing the audible hum of Yorkshire Sculpture Park and its surroundings, an audio composition created from sounds emitted by the park's physical environment plays continuously in the exhibition, combining familiar sounds that may be heard whilst navigating the site with more typically unheard sounds such as the site’s electrical grid and the vibrations within a 500-year-old ash tree, the oldest living component of the landscape that connects its past to the contemporary. In synchronisation with the sound is a projected moving image piece created from hand-printed darkroom prints, and the results of a two-week pinhole camera experiment on site, scanned and animated digitally. Echoing the history of the site and its systematic reshaping over many years are three site-responsive sculptural works, including two illuminated hand-pulped paper works and a painted floor-based plaster form.

The work was shown inside the site’s lower lake Boathouse, a disused wooden building previously used by the former Bretton College (not to be confused with the 18th-century upper lake Boathouse). One wall of the exhibition space, covered in gaps and knot holes, serendipitously turns the building into a pinhole camera, projecting traces of the outdoors onto the floor,  becoming an active part of the installation and creating a sense of harmonius tension between the interior and the exterior.


Image credit: Paolina Hurry
Image credit: Paolina Hurry
Image credit: Paolina Hurry
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