PlanetMatucana100 Santiago, Chile, 2019Proyecto Eclipse curated by Ximena Moreno and Lydia KorndörferØ 12cm, concrete part, light
Schwindel 114,5cm concrete casted sphere, engine, lightlets start to implement little errors Pfefferbergkatakomben, 2011
Schwindel 1(installation view)
A spherical volume is slowly (almost non-perceivably) rotating in space and the only thing illuminated. All architectonic and exhibitional context is blacked out. The visitor has nothing else to relate himself to than the Planet. His perception of scale is confused. Human perception gives things around us a fixed scale while processing and rendering reality: A simplification of how things really are. Entering the installation, falling into imbalance, allows the visitor to look behind this simplification.
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Eine beleuchtete Kugel rotiert langsam (fast unmerklich) im Dunkel des Raumes. Architektur, Kontext von Raum und Ausstellungssituation ist von der Dunkelheit verschluckt. Das Einzige, mit dem sich der Besucher des Raumes in Beziehung setzen kann, ist die Kugel. Seine gewohnte Wahrnehmung von Maßstab ist aufgehoben. Die Menschliche Wahrnehmung ist, während sie unaufhörlich Realität prozessiert und konstruiert, dahingehend entwickelt, Dingen um uns herum konstante Größen in Relation zu den eigenen Körpermaßen zu geben. Dieser Prozess stellt eine Reduktion und Vereinfachung einer objektiven Realtät. Der beim Betreten der Installation ausgelöste Schwindel, bietet vielleicht einen Blick hinter diese Vereinfachung.
Ein Kugelförmiges Volumen hängt in absoluter Dunkelheit des 25 Meter langen Raumes und ist präzise beleuchtet mit einem Projektor. Die Konstellation aus Lichtquelle, beleuchtetem Objekt und dahinter resultierendem Schatten rotiert im Raum. Die Arbeit, die auch als Mond wahrgenommen werden kann, ist eine vertikale Spiegelung des Mondes der Aussenwelt, 6 Meter unter der Erde in den Zisternen der zentralen Koutoubia Moschee in Marrakech.
A spherical volume hanging in the darkened space is precisely illuminated by a light projector, the constellation of light-source, object and consequential shadow is rotating in space. The work is exhibited in the cisterns of the central Koutoubia mosque of Marrakech. The Volume, perceptively appearing as the moon, vertically mirrors the Moon outside, 6 meters under ground
Planet auf Reisen / Planet on the roadIsland, 2011
Schwindel 21cm wood sphere, engine, light lets start to implement little errors, Berlin, 2011
Planet 4Wood, lightGlasauge, Berlin, 2012
Superdimensionconcrete, socket, lightDas Numen Genf / Théorie des modèles, Art & Science: trop simple, trop complexeEspace d’exposition de la Head, Geneva, 2010
Seramisplanet / Planet Seramis@ Ideas Are MotionMultimedijalmi institut – MAMA, Zagreb, Croatia, 2011
Seramisplanet1cm clay sphere, engine, lightDas Numen Ursprung, Berlin, 2010
AuflösungLicht im SchattenDeichtorhallen, Hamburg 2012
Arbeitstischplanetmixed materials, concrete, engine, lightaccidental accomplishment, Berlin 2013Every planet I add to our solar system is different. Similar is only the effect each produces – an imbalance, a feeling of vertigo, a perceptual loss of identity. I believe that in this experience of disorientation you are a step closer to how things really are - beyond the subjective reality the brain produces.This experience of disorientation can at times be made stronger by building an encapsulated theatrical space completely detached from the outside. In Schwindel 1 (lets start to implement little errors, 2011), a spherical volume is slowly, nearly imperceptibly, rotating in space. It is the only thing illuminated. With all physical space blacked out, all sense of time and scale are lost. The visitor has no context or object to relate to, other than the planet.Other times the planet produces a duality of experiences. In Planet 4 (Glasauge, 2011) scale is perceived simultaneously in two ways. Upon entering the exhibition space the visitor experiences the sober reality of the room. However, embedded in this banality something seems amiss, there is an error. The prosaic or commonplace scale of physical space is perceived in parallel with the unfiltered, anti-scale of the planet's pure geometryIn Arbeittischplanet (accidental accomplishment, 2013) realities overlap. Separated neither by physical compartmentalization nor by the creation of a separate visual field, the planet is integrated into the banal space of its surrounding. It exists inside the same self-evident physical situation as the visitor who is experiencing it. Positioned above a table that displays various everyday objects, the scale of the table and scale of the planet become intertwined and inseparable.
Marie: ‚What exactly do you want to do?‘ Felix: ‚I have this vision in which I walk on a giant sphere that is so immense that if i try to attach this comparatively irrelevant tiny volume with a reinforced line to the ceiling and try to hang it into this cistern - it would never fit‘
Eric and Christina: ‚What do you want to do?‘ Felix: ‚I want a moon in the atelier. Immeasurable in size.‘back / archive
