Rapture baiting — VR artwork by Samuel Walker, dreamlike suburban bedroom with surreal window landscapes
Curated Exhibition · Art Mûr · September–October 2022

Samuel Walker Rapture baiting

Dates
September 10 – October 29, 2022
Medium
Virtual Reality
Venue
Galerie Art Mûr, Montreal
Curator
Samuel Arsenault-Brassard

Inside a modest suburban bedroom, a bed-bound character is entangled in linen sheets. An ordinary window displays surreal, dreamlike landscapes and prophetic visions as long stretches of time elapse. VR as meditation on stillness, interiority, and the landscapes that exist within boredom.

The mundane domestic architecture of the bedroom becomes a threshold between the real and the imagined. The bed a vessel, the window a portal, the sheets an entanglement of consciousness. Walker’s work dives into the character’s thoughts and fantasies, sharing an intimate perspective of their voyage into a world of ennui. The surreal visions through the window shift slowly, prophetically, as though the room itself is dreaming.

Rapture baiting — VR screenshot, surreal landscape visible through bedroom window
Rapture baiting — VR screenshot, prophetic vision in dreamlike suburban setting
A bed-bound character, surreal landscapes through an ordinary window, long stretches of time. VR as stillness, interiority, boredom.