Brookfield Place: Soft Spin

Soft Spin installation by Heather Nicol energizes Brookfield Place

From now through June 19, take a stroll through the gorgeous space that is downtown Toronto’s Brookfield Place, Allen Lambert Galleria. Canadian artist Heather Nicol presents their latest instillation, Soft Spin.

Explore the enormity of the installation’s curvaceous hemlines to the play of sunlight through the bursts of spring-time colour. Soft Spin steps away from ledgers, straight lines, and the black and white. Nicol infuses the clean, engineered certainty of corporate grandeur with an immersive dose of the whimsical, the feminine, and the celebratory.

Soft Spin offers a fresh view of the hard-surfaced symmetry of the space with the playful interruption of five enormous fabric forms, gently twirling overhead. Colour, texture, movement, and decidedly flirtatious forms invite visitors to look up and embrace the unexpected, highlighting the ever-present potential for encounters with unforeseen pleasure and drama in the day-to-day. 

Soft Spin installation by Heather Nicol energizes Brookfield Place June 2 to 19, 2014

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