Caroline Gueye's WURUS installation transforms perception at Senegal Pavilion in Venice Biennale

At the Senegal Pavilion during the 61st International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Caroline Gueye's installation WURUS presents a challenge to traditional viewing by introducing perceptual instability. Curated by Massamba Mbaye at Palazzo Navagero, the work employs brass lines, polymer bronze, mirrored surfaces, and light to produce dynamic visuals. The term WURUS, which signifies gold, alludes to the histories of extraction and exchange. Drawing from her background in physics, Gueye crafts contingent perceptual systems. WURUS transforms Palazzo Navagero into an engaging perceptual device, suggesting that value arises from perception rather than objects. Viewers are invited to move, as perceptions shift with angles, reflections, and fleeting glimpses, creating access moment by moment through spatial trajectories.