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Isobel Philip takes a walk through an enchanted forest…

The Good Forest, Geoff Kleem’s recent show at the Institute of Contemporary Art Newtown (I.C.A.N.), lured viewers into an immersive image space.

The installation piece assembled in the small gallery was sparsely furnished; a stereoscopic photograph of a forest covered the back wall, an old fashioned street lamp protruded from the image and a rock sat on the floor in front of it. On entering the gallery, viewers took a pair of the 3D glasses provided and were absorbed into Kleem’s playful study of dimensional slippage.

The conflation of image space and object space that accompanies the 3D viewing experience is nothing new.

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In the age of the 3D movie blockbuster, we are increasingly acclimatized to the virtual tangibility of the stereoscopic image. We’ve felt its touch before. Yet, to discuss Kleem’s work in terms of the seduction of haptic tactility and the pull of illusion sligh