View Tracing #5 “LABYRINTH”, 2024

Takayuki Mori’s View Tracing #5 “LABYRINTH” (2024) is a multimedia installation that highlights Saudi heritage through cultural objects. The artwork is the latest iteration in his View Tracing series, where the artist combines light and sculpture to create scenes that resemble computer-generated graphics.

In this newly commissioned installation for Noor Riyadh, Mori uses 3D models of the falcon, mabkhara (incense burner), dallah (coffee pot) and more to produce 3D-printed objects, which he outlines in fluorescent threads to make them appear two-dimensional. Viewers are invited into a dark room with several maze-like pathways to observe these objects glow under ultraviolet light and imagine their scent, sound and taste.

Through this artwork, Mori illustrates our brain’s tendency to simplify visual data into basic shapes and forms. He hopes his “surface-based” installation in a 3D space will help us understand the world more deeply.