Produced within the Pilot Artists Residency (Lab)
Virtual installation, Newart.city
HEADPHONES REQUIRED
Upon The Shore unfolds as a spatial and sonic environment suspended between interior memory and external geography.
An island rests on the periphery of the mind, situated within a fjord, searching for the horizon. Mountains rise across the water, shoulder to shoulder, dormant under the sun. Night and day collapse into one another. Seasons shift under the rule of wind. Terrain and fragments of memory scatter across the landscape.
The installation occupies a purple, fog-filled void. Screens displaying mountains, snow-covered terrain and waves breaking against black sand beaches are dispersed above and below the viewer. In the distance, multi-coloured swirling forms hover at the edge of vision, sharpening as one approaches.
Sound structures the experience. Movement through the space activates layered audio encounters:
Ascending expands the sonic field - ice melts, birds travel through open air.
Descending introduces submerged registers - muffled engines, underwater resonance, sonar-like pulses.
The work positions landscape not as static scenery, but as shifting perceptual terrain — a place where memory, atmosphere and spatial awareness intermingle.
Cecilia Tyrrell’s practice explores environments as psychological and sensory thresholds. Through moving image and spatialised sound, she constructs immersive installations that hold tension between geological permanence and internal transience.
In Upon The Shore, the shoreline becomes both boundary and meeting point — between land and sea, surface and depth, presence and recollection.