UVA's diverse body of work integrates new technologies with traditional media such as painting, sculpture, performance, and site-specific installation.
Drawing from sources ranging from ancient philosophy to theoretical science, the practice explores the cultural frameworks and natural phenomena that shape our cognition, creating instruments that manipulate our perception and expose the relativity of our experiences.
UVA has collaborated with artists including choreographer Benjamin Millepied and the Paris Opéra Ballet, filmmaker Adam Curtis, and musicians Massive Attack, Battles, and James Blake.
[5] UVA's work is represented in public and private collections including the Fondation Cartier,[6] France and MONA,[7] Australia.
The work joins a series of kinetic sculptures that began with Momentum (2013), an installation designed as a "spatial instrument" that reveals the relationship between expectation and perception in physical space.
UVA's large-scale installation Volume first appeared in the garden of London's V&A museum in 2006[11] and has since toured far as Hong Kong, Taiwan, St. Petersburg, Paris and Melbourne.