MuseumChick | Danee Gilmartin

This is the last weekend for Carlito Carvalhosa’s interactive work at the MoMA, Sum of Days. The Brazilian artist has invited MoMA visitors to walk through his flowing, gauze-like white cloth that is suspending from the ceiling, allowing for only dark shadows of fellow gazers to show through, thanks to the fluorescent lights on the adjacent white wall. Taking their places among the curtain are microphones and speakers that record and play back compounded audio of previous visitors. The surrounding ambient sound lulled me through the maze of fabric in a calming, almost mesmerizing way, like a puppy falling calm to the regular heart beat of its mom. The large open space of the Marron Atrium changed dimensions as the cloth took up more space depending on the amount of visitors weaving inside. (And remember today, Friday is the MoMA’s late night- open until 8).

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