Art Basel Miami Beach Meridians: Sarah Meyohas | Interference #18

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Marianne Boesky Gallery is pleased to present conceptual artist Sarah Meyohas’s Interference #18—a monumental, multipanel hologram from the artist’s ongoing Interference series—for the Meridians sector of Art Basel Miami Beach 2024. 

With Interference #18, Meyohas layers magnified imagery of plant matter with images of a nude female form, laying bare the connections between plant matter and bodies as coexisting living organisms. At fourteen feet wide and comprising more than thirty trapezoidal panels, Interference #18 is perhaps Meyohas’s most explicit engagement yet with the complex dynamics of human life in an increasingly technological society. Fractured and flickering, this abstracted, sensorial experience of the body serves as a reminder that the natural world is its own form of technology. Interference #18 debuted in Meyohas’s first solo exhibition with Marianne Boesky Gallery in May 2023. 

Meyohas began her unexpectedly analog Interference series in 2021. Seeking to mimic the experience of augmented reality without digitization, Meyohas employs holographic technology first developed in the 1940s (and subsequently recognized as a unique invention in 1971, when Hungarian-British physicist Dennis Gabor was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with holography). The technology of holograms has remained fundamentally the same since. Like Gabor, Meyohas records interference patterns that, when strategically lit from above, produce a three-dimensional image. With her Interferences, Meyohas pushes the medium beyond its previous uses: combining multiple holographic masters, the works rely on a rigorous knowledge of both physics and optics to engage the viewer as an active participant in an experience of multisensory perception.

Throughout her practice, Meyohas considers the production of value, the nature of exchange, and the romantic resonance of the sublime in work that seeks to reveal the systems—both innate and manufactured—that govern contemporary society. Pairing a studied consideration of the unrealized potential of various technologies with a deft handling of analog artistic techniques, Meyohas produces work that is as conceptually rich as it is visually arresting. Investigating the intricacies of a broad range of media, including photography, film, holography, artificial intelligence, and the blockchain, Meyohas unearths potential connections among nature, culture, technology, and humanity. Her vivid imagery makes reference to myriad motifs of art history—from the echoes of classical fascination with the nude female form and the romantic allure of the natural world to the meticulous shapes and colors of geometric abstraction. Subjecting this imagery to various alchemical processes—both analog and digital—Meyohas produces an intelligible visual language that articulates the complex operations that increasingly govern our world.