At Kanvas in Dubai, Ryan Koopmans and Alice Wexell are bringing their project The Wild Within into a more immersive setting, where architecture, memory, and time start to blur together.
Ruins that don’t stay still
Their work takes real abandoned buildings from places like Beirut, Istanbul, and Abu Dhabi and transforms them into shifting digital environments. Instead of static ruins, you’re faced with interiors slowly overtaken by vegetation, changing light, and subtle atmospheric movement, almost like the buildings are breathing again.
An immersive evening in motion
On May 18, Kanvas opens an evening titled IN TIME, Where Memory and Place Continue to Change, where multiple artists are shown together in a layered, walk-through experience. Koopmans and Wexell’s contribution sits inside that mix, using large-scale projections and screen-based works that spill across space rather than stay framed.
A key piece, Heartbeats, is described as “time-based media, adaptable to any dimensions,” designed to stretch across walls and screens so the visuals feel less like images and more like an environment you’re inside.
Between ruin and regrowth
The result is less about looking at art and more about moving through it, where digital decay and overgrowth reshape how these forgotten structures are remembered.
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