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Alicja Kwade: Phase
K脰NIG GALERIE is pleased to present Alicja Kwade鈥檚 latest sound installation in the solo show PHASE at St Agnes.
鈥淣achBild鈥� shows how easily human perception is deceived. Contrary to what the title might suggest, what is alluded to here is not the after image produced by light hitting the retina, but the different speeds at which light and sound waves travel 鈥� most obvious in nature as thunder and lightning. Whilst lightning can be seen almost immediately, there鈥檚 a time lag before the thunder is heard. In 鈥淣achBild鈥�, Kwade extracts the thunder that rolls through the chapel in St Agnes as a trace and record of the occurrence. The lightning, however, remains unseen.
This installation seamlessly ties into the 鈥渢ime-state-sculptures鈥� series that Kwade has been developing since 2009. Here, too, Kwade made a stainless steel ring spin like a top on a screened floor. Here, the different stages of its trajectory weren鈥檛 recorded by microphones, but by five cameras. The film stills allowed the artist to reproduce the position of the ring at different moments. Each individual sculpture was composed of multiple snapshots from an act that lasted a total of 88 seconds
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K脰NIG GALERIE is pleased to present Alicja Kwade鈥檚 latest sound installation in the solo show PHASE at St Agnes.
鈥淣achBild鈥� shows how easily human perception is deceived. Contrary to what the title might suggest, what is alluded to here is not the after image produced by light hitting the retina, but the different speeds at which light and sound waves travel 鈥� most obvious in nature as thunder and lightning. Whilst lightning can be seen almost immediately, there鈥檚 a time lag before the thunder is heard. In 鈥淣achBild鈥�, Kwade extracts the thunder that rolls through the chapel in St Agnes as a trace and record of the occurrence. The lightning, however, remains unseen.
This installation seamlessly ties into the 鈥渢ime-state-sculptures鈥� series that Kwade has been developing since 2009. Here, too, Kwade made a stainless steel ring spin like a top on a screened floor. Here, the different stages of its trajectory weren鈥檛 recorded by microphones, but by five cameras. The film stills allowed the artist to reproduce the position of the ring at different moments. Each individual sculpture was composed of multiple snapshots from an act that lasted a total of 88 seconds
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