Carlos Cruz-Diez: Chromosaturation

An immersive installation at Pérez Art Museum Miami transforms color into a lived, bodily experience. Carlos Cruz-Diez: Chromosaturation, conceived in 1965, consists of three connected chambers, each bathed in a single hue of red, green or blue. As visitors move through these shifting fields of pure color, their eyes adjust to the monochrome environment, creating a heightened awareness of perception and revealing color as a temporal, physical phenomenon.

Cruz-Diez (1923–2019), a pioneering figure of kinetic and Op art, dedicated his career to exploring the unstable, ever-changing nature of color. Through light, movement, space and viewer participation, he redefined art as an active perceptual encounter rather than a static object. Chromosaturation underscores his radical approach, anticipating the immersive, sensory-driven practices that continue to shape contemporary art today.