“Time Loop” unveils this September

The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art will unveil “Time Loop” by Klip Collective: A Forest Light Experience on September 4, 2024. This innovative light and sound display, inspired by the museum’s surrounding wilderness, will take visitors on a captivating journey through time and nature.

Set exclusively in the museum’s North Forest, “Time Loop” will feature six large-scale installations: Endless Overture, Life Cycle, Repeater, Broken Time Machine, Infinite Wave and Hereafter. The installations will be accompanied by a custom soundtrack, enhancing the dynamic outdoor experience during the Ozarks’ most picturesque season. Visitors will experience the Earth’s natural rhythms brought to life, see themselves mirrored in a broken time machine, and marvel at the forest’s movements illuminated by light. 

“Time Loop is going to be the best kind of surprise for our visitors,” said Alejo Benedetti, the museum’s curator of contemporary art. “At night, the right artist can completely transform the North Forest into something mesmerizing. Klip Collective created a brilliant balance between a stunning, colorful, and fun experience that is also a deeply smart reflection on the familiar, strange, and mysterious march of time. You’re going to be swept up while you’re here, but you’re going to keep thinking about this one long after you leave.”

Klip Collective employs digital mapping technology to create light projections that animate the forest in wondrous and melodic ways. In “Time Loop,” the North Forest becomes a site of exploration where time moves in various directions moving forward, backward, pausing, breaking, slipping, and blurring. These sound and light installations transform the concept of time into a sensory experience that guides visitors through the dark, inviting them to pause along an endless, infinite loop.

“Focusing on ‘time’ as the common thread was an inspiring starting point in the creative process and it manifested differently in each piece,” said Ricardo Rivera, creative director and founder of Klip Collective. “We experimented with time and the moving image, entropy, temporal processing shifts, and symphonic visualizations. We’re particularly excited to show our first series of video sculptures in Life Cycle, a reflection on the cycles and transformations of energy in nature.”

“Time Loop” will be open in the North Forest at Crystal Bridges from September 4, 2024, through January 5, 2025, Wednesdays through Sundays. Tickets are $25 for adults and $15 for youth (ages 11-18). Crystal Bridges members can purchase tickets for $20 for adults and $12 for youth, while children 10 and under can enter for free. Tickets are available on the museum’s website. For more information on the experience and related programming, visit the Time Loop webpage.