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Black Light, 2010

At the first sight there are only big white sheets from hand made paper on the walls, on the ceiling there are black light tubes replacing the usual neon tubes. While the bright daylight from the windows beside blends with the artificial, the silk screens are barely visible. It’s only when the night falls and the light from the tubes dominates that the subjects show their appearance. Toxic nightshade family already known in the middle age for their relief of nightmares are confronted with pictures of drug addicts, bodies which fade during the day. Over the period of day and night, the slow appearance and the fading away are perceptible and the changing of the light becomes a cyclical phenomenon. Each print arises in his place only an absence. There is only a sign and a constant movement from the here and there. The picture is latent and the audience is forced to wait.

Energetic Transformation, 2012

In the entrance of a public building a huge surface of wood is installed on the wall of concrete. A gobo projector is placed in front and figures like a screen. Inside the building, besides every door which leads to the sports hall and to the tribune, there are pyrometers installed which measure the reflected heat of every person leaving and entering the hall. This registered energy is then passed forward to the projector in the entrance hall where a picture of a landscape appears on the wooden projection wall. The intensity depends on the heating of the people using the building. After duration of 10 years this procedure leaves a mark. Over time the light engraves in the wooden surface, fade it and provokes therefore a weathering in form of a silver grey patina. A natural process under the sun is being imitated and carried inside the architecture, where the energy of the people is transformed into a visible image.