two multilayering projections on three penduluosly transparent sheets
a site specific work based on photography
sphère
Multilayered projections on hanging, transparent sheets, fill and obscure the architecture with reflections and interruptions and transform the whole into a kaleidoscopic and magical “light space”.
The installation “sphère” uses images recorded by GD on her visits to the gallery in order to capture particular light conditions with her camera. “From the beginning, I was fascinated with the architecture of the building and its intriguing changing light, how the light revealed itself, where it lodged itself, how it interacted with the space. I wanted to capture how the light, which entered the building through the semitransparent casing, created transient “light drawings”, layer upon layer on the windows, floor, walls, breaking up on the corners and spreading across the shiny reflecting surfaces. I observed the translucency of the transitions from the outside to the inside and I experienced how light filled the space and how it vanished from it”.
Like a circular visual dance, the images projected by the two beamers onto the transparent areas are of varying intensity and in combination with the prevailing daylight, the effects shift from the more to the less succinct. They break up and overlap. Stepping into the space one becomes part of the “projection area” and so is a participant in the rich and many faceted interplay of light and shadow, experiencing thereby, the ceaselessly changing patterns as a part of oneself.
text by gabriella obrist, co-curator kunsthalle wil,
in the folder for the exhibition 'LIGHT SPACE LIGHT' 2013
