Inside this adorned viewer are 15 surrational images that feature Soundsuits in both real and surreal environments. They give a sense of of the artist’s inspiration while also allowing the viewer to enter a dream world as well. The surrational ViewMaster was originally produced as part of the Soundsuits Boxfolio.

Nick Cave Spinner Forest is currently on view in Remai Modern's ground-level atrium.

Artist

Nick Cave (b. 1959, Fulton, MO; lives and works in Chicago, IL) is an artist, educator and foremost a messenger, working between the visual and performing arts through a wide range of mediums including sculpture, installation, video, sound and performance. Cave is well known for his Soundsuits, sculptural forms based on the scale of his body, initially created in direct response to the police beating of Rodney King in 1991. Soundsuits camouflage the body, masking and creating a second skin that conceals race, gender and class, forcing the viewer to look without judgment. They serve as a visual embodiment of social justice that represent both brutality and empowerment.