Rachel Hayes creates large-scale textile installations that blend art with the surrounding architecture and landscape. Her work uses vivid, translucent fabrics to affect color and light, forming immersive environments in diverse locations such as museums and natural settings. Hayes emphasizes an intuitive approach, relying on her immediate responses to locations as she designs. This method involves careful consideration of how light interacts with her pieces, resulting in reflections and shadows that enhance viewer experience. Her installations are characterized by their texture, durability, and dynamic interaction with space.
Rachel Hayes transforms architectural spaces and natural landscapes into shifting compositions of color and movement with large-scale textile-based installations that are site-specific and vibrant.
Hayes inserts vivid, translucent forms into varied locations like museum atriums, desert dunes, and ancient ruins, creating immersive experiences that respond to their physical context.
Her design process is intuitive, relying on instinct and the interplay of light, as she considers how people interact with her artwork in dynamic environments.
By blending painting and sculptural elements, Hayes' installations emphasize texture, durability, transparency, color, and light, challenging conventional perceptions of art in space.
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