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CAPPED WAVES GOLD

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CAPPED WAVES by Grimanesa Amoros

CAPPED WAVES, Gold, 2024, Stainless steel, diffusion and reflective material, LEDs, custom lighting sequence, and electrical hardware.
Three sizes:
6″ × 6″ × 4″ (15.24 cm × 15.24 cm × 10.16 cm)
9″ × 9″ × 6″ (22.86 cm × 22.86 cm × 15.24 cm)
12″ × 12″ × 8″ (30.48 cm × 30.48 cm × 20.32 cm)

CAPPED WAVES opens with Amoros’s childhood memories of Lima’s Pacific coast, where the fleeting movement of ocean foam first sparked her sense of wonder. Rather than seeing the sea as landscape, Amoros is drawn to its spume sculptural foam that forms and vanishes in moments, shaped by wind, gravity, sunlight, and motion.

In this series, foam becomes a metaphor for fragile memory. Amoros channels this instability into objects that merge reflection, tactility, color, and light. CAPPED WAVES explores physical and conceptual qualities, capturing something fleeting, an image, a memory, a surface, a moment before it dissolves, echoing Amoros’s ethos that light is both material and ephemeral.

The stainless-steel mirror surfaces invite viewers to encounter each work differently, shifting with position and light. As visitors move, reflections and forms change, offering discovery at every angle. The warped, bulbous shapes skew perception, hinting at the impossibility of returning to childhood while preserving the intensity of memories that persist in the present.

Each artwork features a unique LED lighting sequence, programmed by Amoros second by second and color by color. She never uses automated effects or algorithms; Amoros composes light as a painter builds an image with a brush or a composer writes music. The works evoke crashing waves, drifting foam, sunrise, sunset, and shifting sky blues.