Artworks

NDD IMMERSION ROOM

Part I of The Women's Trilogy Project, (The Ray Lee Project Vol. 1): NDD Immersion Room, is a large-scale immersive installation whose title derives from the concept of Nature Deficit Disorder (“NDD”), used to describe a form of human alienation from nature that results in both a greater susceptibility to negative moods and a reduced attention span. Upon entering the exhibition, visitors surrender their phones and receive a lantern to enter a dimly lit interior forest barely illuminated by a campfire with very few signs of civilization. Hovnanian created this exhibition under her male pseudonym, Ray Lee, assigned by her peers during adolescence to reflect her interest in stereotypically masculine outdoor pass-times like camping and fishing.

NDD Immersion Room, 2017