Student Gallery Spotlight: ASTRAL

ASTRAL—an immersive, audio-visual exhibition by Alexandre Normandeau and River Inan—is now on view in the School of Art Student Gallery. Running January 7–14, 2026, the installation transforms the space through shifting light, projection, and sound, inviting visitors into a sensory environment built around texture, surface, reflection, and atmosphere.

Inspired by the phenomenon of astral projection—the sensation of leaving one’s body—ASTRAL plays with perception and disorientation. Projected colour washes the gallery walls in violet and blue tones, while light splinters into shadows and halos that move across plinths and surfaces. Glass vessels catch and refract the projections, creating mirrored highlights and silhouettes that feel both sculptural and fleeting. Suspended discs echo the language of the digital and the celestial, casting soft, circular reflections that ripple across the ceiling and room.

As viewers move through the installation, the work encourages a slowed pace and a heightened attention to what’s peripheral: shimmer, echo, glow, and the shifting edges of form. ASTRAL offers a space to drift—an invitation to wander through the unknown and encounter new sensations, thoughts, and fragments of self along the way.