FL083
Neon Castle
Tjärö, Sweden
2023
The light installation was originally planned to be built in a former industrial harbor plot in Malmö, Sweden. The event was unfortunately cancelled but the installation got a second life when it was instead put up at a festival on a small island in the Blekinge archipelago. The new site offered a backdrop radically unlike its first home as well as some new structural and logistical challenges.
The following text was written for the intial exhibition program:
Sixteen steel poles support 400 meters of red LED strip in a 50 by 50 meters grid. The size references the harbor's nearest neighbors - silos, warehouses, ships. The installation draws attention from afar with its reflection in the harbor basin's water. Up close, the light creates a red space surrounded by darkness, and the harbor's empty parking spots.
The work is as much pure structure as it is pure decor. The light arcs, with their sharp lines, create delimited spaces; the red light, in turn, dissolves contours and boundaries. The installation operates in the interstice - in the pause between the surroundings. Not a void - an interstice - defined by what came before and what follows after.
