As Light Goes By
Installation
Mix it up! exhibition, Copenhagen / 2015
As Light Goes By is a small installation made for the Mix it up! exhibition, which took place at the National Gallery of Denmark in May 2015. The exhibition was organized in collaboration with the Europeana Creative project and the idea was to remix artworks from the National Gallery using their public domain image collection. Altogether 13 artists and designers were invited to create remixes, and the creations were shown next to the original artworks which had inspired them.
My source of inspiration was Vilhelm Hammershøi’s (1864-1916) painting called “Interior in Strandgade, Sunlight on the Floor” (1901). As the name implies, the artwork depicts a peaceful room with a quiet figure and a pattern of sunlight on the floor. While capturing a particular moment, the painting also conveys the passage of time, as one can imagine the light pattern moving along with the sun. Intrigued by this atmosphere, I built an electromechanical machine, which is essentially a simple pop-up version of Hammershøi’s room, where a repeating scene takes place. A light coming through the window moves across the floor like a day from dawn to sunset, and when it is night-time, sleepy tones from a music box accompany the silent figure.
As Light Goes By is a small installation made for the Mix it up! exhibition, which took place at the National Gallery of Denmark in May 2015. The exhibition was organized in collaboration with the Europeana Creative project and the idea was to remix artworks from the National Gallery using their public domain image collection. Altogether 13 artists and designers were invited to create remixes, and the creations were shown next to the original artworks which had inspired them.
My source of inspiration was Vilhelm Hammershøi’s (1864-1916) painting called “Interior in Strandgade, Sunlight on the Floor” (1901). As the name implies, the artwork depicts a peaceful room with a quiet figure and a pattern of sunlight on the floor. While capturing a particular moment, the painting also conveys the passage of time, as one can imagine the light pattern moving along with the sun. Intrigued by this atmosphere, I built an electromechanical machine, which is essentially a simple pop-up version of Hammershøi’s room, where a repeating scene takes place. A light coming through the window moves across the floor like a day from dawn to sunset, and when it is night-time, sleepy tones from a music box accompany the silent figure.
