Embrace, Ingrid Bachmann

Montreal-based transdisciplinary artist Ingrid Bachmann is the Spencer Museum of Art’s 2020–2021 International Artist-in-Residence. After visiting the Spencer in January 2020, Bachmann was inspired to create an immersive installation that would use touch, sound, and texture to make visitors aware of their own bodies and bodily experiences. With Embrace, Bachmann juxtaposes monumental scale with soft, lush, conductive materials such as felt and copper to create different sensory experiences. These three semi-circular columns bathe visitors in subtle sounds, a sonic experience continued in the flat floor piece behind you. In a time when discussions about our health and bodies are unrelenting, ever-changing, fast-moving, and often divisive, Embrace encourages you take a moment to contemplate your physicality in calmness and serenity.