Andrés Silva Ruiz

Statement

My work explores the aesthetic potential of moiré patterns. Vinyl cut on acrylic, suspended before a light box: every point on the back layer acts as a light source; the front layer interferes with it, and from that interference the moiré is born, a dance of forms at a much larger scale that neither layer contains on its own. What draws me is that moment when two simple things produce something neither anticipated. Each piece begins on the computer, where I search for the interference that triggers the most striking response. No moving parts. As you walk past, parallax shifts the layers and the pattern responds: it expands, contracts, mutates, flows. The same piece shows you different things depending on where you stand and how you move.

Artworks

The background layer is a deformed version of the front: every point is pulled toward the center. A small disk at the core collapses entirely; outward from there, the pull fades until it vanishes at the edges. A slight rotation is applied then. Neither deformation is visible on any single layer. But when superimposed, the moiré amplifies both: a flow converges toward the center and twists, producing a structure with hexagonal symmetry. At the center something like a star emerges; around it, a shape evoking a flower. No moving parts. As you walk past, parallax shifts the layers, triggering a burst of forms, a pictorial dance giving rise to aesthetic qualities as novel as they are dynamic: it breathes, contracts, spins.

The background layer is a deformed version of the front: every point is gently pushed outward from the center. The push is strongest at the core and fades smoothly toward the edges, where it vanishes. The deformation is so subtle that neither layer betrays it alone. But when superimposed, the moiré amplifies it drastically: the pattern swells around the center, bending and stretching as if space itself were warped by something massive hidden behind the surface. The resulting structure evokes gravitational lensing, the way light bends near a star or a black hole. No moving parts. A still object that seems to distort the room around it.