Claudia Pérez Pavón likes to play with time.

This is evident in her new installation “Suspension” in the Atkinson Gallery. The exhibition opened on Friday March 1 and ends April 5.

The artworks are meant to be viewed from all angles, so the viewer must constantly walk around the pieces to observe the changing perspectives and effects of time.

From a head-on view, a girl is entranced by a machine. From the side, she’s hunched over it, looking weary. From the back of the painting, she’s blurred and hardly visible because she’s lost herself. This piece is titled “Aurora” and is one of the five framed pieces hanging from the gallery’s ceiling.

A second hanging piece is titled “El ojo y el espíritu” and features two sleeping deer in the middle of a neon green vortex of straight lines. On the back is an array of orange geometric lines and shapes. When viewed from the front, the deer seem to be framed by the lines in complimentary colors. From the back, it’s gone and the observer only sees the lines.

There are three paintings hanging from the ceiling like discarded scraps of paper caught in the wind with the gallery lights shining on them. The result is a warped painting that projects onto the wall, turning a 2 dimensional illustration into three different silhouettes, each showing various angles with a different effect of time. A piece called “Flores” shows a bunch of flowers fading slowly with each different shadow.

Pavón also has a piece called “Semilla” hanging in the left side of the gallery. It’s a round box, taken apart with different paintings on the inside. This is only one of Pavón’s stunning collection of boxes. The box itself is beautifully carved and intricately painted and can be left as is. However, the box is also meant to be taken apart and viewed or filled with personal items.

The largest painting in the gallery is titled “Buscar lo real” and features a little girl clutching a toy before a rice paper background. It’s different from the rest because the back is not accessible. In spite of this fact, it is undeniably stunning. The little girls’ eyes are piercing, and captures the viewer. Its simplicity among the other complex shapes and vivid colors featured in the other artworks is the necessary balance that makes the exhibition a visual pleasure.