Visual artist Serena Scapagnini, artist-in-residence at the Yale Quantum Institute, and Florian Carle, managing director of the institute, will lead a walking tour to present three of Scapagnini’s art-and-quantum-science installations. The tour will include discussion of works in these locations: the New Haven Green, the Yale Quantum Institute, and Haas Family Arts Library.
Haas Arts Library will display “Refractions,” an artwork made of 10 handmade paper panels, created in Fabriano, Italy. The panels will be suspended by cables within the library’s soaring atrium.
This work and the others in the series are inspired by “cat states.” Cat states take their name from the thought experiment known as Schrödinger’s cat, which describes a paradoxical principle of quantum mechanics.
“Refractions” will remain on view at Haas Arts Library through fall 2025.
This event is part of this year’s citywide International Arts & Ideas Festival.
Speakers: Florian Carle, managing director of the Yale Quantum Institute, and Serena Scapagnini, artist-in-residence