Clearing
The richly accentuated variations created by the light falling on the upper floor through the skylight, is the starting point of GDs intervention in the podium. The photographs depicting
how light falls on surfaces in particular daylight situations, how it rests in the niche between
wall and floor, or gently touches the border of the balustrade are formally defined. The light images are reduced to pure form and thereby resemble an abstract documentation of the ebb and flow of the light. Transparent sheets from which has been cut a representation of how
the light falls onto the surface, unfolds like a drawing in space from the rear wall into the
room; the individual but connected components running into the space like a free-flowing
spring from its source. The transparent and colourless material catches the light in its turn and reflects it, delicately shimmering, so that it gives the impression of a rivulet or perhaps splinters
of ice. The “embeddedness” within the visible beams of the gallery lends the title “clearing”
a referential function, drawing one’s imagination to the context of the woods: rays of sunlight trickling through the moving foliage, dancing amongst the undergrowth and covering the floor with shiny spots of light. Such idyllic natural scenes have fascinated artists for centuries and inspired painterly interpretations. GD however, leaves the illustrative behind, showing instead an interpretation of the marks created by the sun in an unusual way. These extracted forms convince as an abstract representation of the flowing and transient nature of light.
Gabrielle Obrist, Curator Kunsthalle Wil
