‘Immersion in forces that remain unstable’

“Suspension Drift 2” (painting and projection installation), by Iwalani Kaluhiokalani‍ , in the show “Suspension Drift,’’ at Kingston Gallery, Boston, through June 28.

The gallery explains that the show is “an immersive installation of painted wallpaper, suspended scrims, video mapping, and sound. Painting and projection function as equal agents: One gathers trace, sediment, and atmosphere; the other sets the space into motion through drift, fragmentation, and fleeting alignment. The work opens a shifting field shaped by wā, a Hawaiian understanding of time-space as interval and relation, and pō, generative darkness as source and return. A planetary form emerges across layers, briefly coheres, and disperses again. Drawing from Polynesian navigation, Indonesian seafaring knowledge, and collective movement, the installation unfolds through passage rather than fixed perspective. It does not begin from a single root; it forms roots as it moves. The sublime is felt here not as distance, but as immersion in forces that remain unstable, relational, and in motion.’’