Islands

OLOFI (2012) Torinus+Seoane

Inspired by growing up in the Caribbean and since traversing between the Tropics and the North, I’ve been creating a series of works investigating the island (sun-drenched, white-sanded, lush, with blue-watered coastlines) as a metaphor situated somewhere between isolation and uniqueness, the fascination of the faraway, the promise of a slower pace, shipwreck and utopia… […]

Into the Light

Torinus Into the Light

curated by Srimoyee Mitra at the Art Gallery of Windsor brings together a series of immersive artworks that are familiar and disorienting at the same time. Using photography, video and objects, Sigi Torinus develops multi-sensory installations that ask viewers to consider how individuals navigate space and their assumptions of places that are foreign or unknown […]

Transit

INFLIGHT, VBK Berlin (2016)

My work plays with notions of how we inhabit space that are both tangible and at other times elusive to the body. This piece plays with perspective and positioning and challenges us to negotiate space and to look at what it means to ground the body. We are constantly recording information as “pictures” – they […]