Gallery Sonder is proud to present Lensing Water, a comprehensive solo exhibition of Los Angeles-based artist Lachlan Turczan, curated by Genevieve Williams.

Working at the intersection of physics, perception, and poetics, Lachlan Turczan sculpts with water, light, and sound to reveal the hidden forces that animate the natural world. This exhibition brings together five distinct bodies of work - including his mirrored Sympathetic Resonance sculptures, aqueous Contact Lens vessels, archival Watergram prints, polished stainless steel Annular Optic wall works, and a new laser tank sculpture - offering a comprehensive look at an evolving practice grounded in scientific inquiry and visual wonder.

Turczan’s works are rooted in the study of cymatics, hydrodynamics, and caustics - the optical phenomena that occur when light is bent and focused through water. Using specific sound frequencies to vibrate liquid surfaces, he produces complex light patterns that feel both elemental and otherworldly. These interactions are captured in the Sympathetic Resonance vessels and echoed in the precise geometries of the Annular Optic works, whose mirrored surfaces distort and magnify their surroundings, creating portals of focused reflection.

Among the works on view is a new self-contained laser tank sculpture: a transparent cube filled with still water into which a single beam of light is projected. The light refracts through the water to form precise, lens-like shapes that shift not through animation, but through the viewer’s own movement around the object. Like many of Turczan’s pieces, it exists somewhere between instrument and object - luminous, meditative, and precisely tuned to perception.

With a practice shaped by experimentation and collaboration across disciplines, Turczan invites viewers to rediscover water not as a passive surface, but as an active material that stores, responds to, and transforms energy. Lensing Water is a quiet, precise exploration of perception, where sound becomes structure, water becomes lens, and light becomes sculptural form.