| ISLANDS - light installation in public space - 2004 |
Through its artificial design and verdant plant life, park or garden is a bridge between nature and culture. Here truth meets illusion on fertile ground. The gardener attends to the garden, “throughout the seasons in order to combine ethics and aesthetics, in order to experience in himself and through his efforts continuously renewed nature.” Michel Onfray, „Forms of Time“ or originally „Die Formen der Zeit“, Germany 1999 The artist as gardener transforms the park’s vegetation into three islands and causes these to float over a lake as if hovering over a large mirror. This plant kingdom reveals itself however not on the surface but below in the depths. Here the lake acts as a deep, living mirror, in which the night can expose that which is veiled by the thick blanket of vegetation during the day. The lake and islands form a closed circuit in their biotechnological symbiosis. During the day, the islands “collect” the sunlight in order to release it during the night as luminous “drooms” (=dreams and rooms). At twilight the atmosphere of the installation changes - the islands release an image as themselves retreat and disappear into the depths. The bodies of somniferous women can be seen - they appear to be sleeping under the surface of the lake. The night is a time when darkness veils the visible, the rational and simultaneously swings open doors to secret, fecund places, where fantasies and stories are free to develop. A production of Olympiapark München GmbH Supported by Degussa AG  . . .  |
KARINA SMIGLA-BOBINSKI START ENGLISH DEUTSCH © 2011 SMIGLA-BOBINSKI |
WORKS ADA JOSS ALIAS WORMHOLE AQUARIUM QUERY ROUTES PARADISE ISLANDS RETURN TO SENDER LETTERS FROM TANTLAND DREAM JOURNEY RESURFACING CONVERSATION WATER CLOCK SEE AND BE SCENE PICTURA MAGICA BREATH CLEPSYDRA SILVERSALT DEEP TREE 7 METER |
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