paradoxon

Paradoxon is a visually interactive installation made from 32 wool covered frames. Almost 45 miles of wool were wound around the different frames that are six to seventeen feet edge length and painted black. The installation was set up at two places: between may and august 2014 at the Wand Wand group display in the municipal gallery in Rosenheim Bavaria and after that at the Analog Mensch Digital Exhibition at the Direktorenhaus in Berlin.
The frames are arranged in a rectangular grid. Visitors are enabled to dive into the installation by walking into its center. The rising wool panels overlay to different moiré patterns: the installation moves with its viewers and creates flickering and condensing effects depending on the perspective.
Like a labyrinth, a person in the middle slowly disappears for others waiting on the outside. This analogue installation mimics the digital flare of our second world (the internet) by disintegrating those who enter. To further dwell on this effect of anonymization and loss of identity, portraits of people of different ages were alienated by plucking color at them through the wool frames. These two effects created a conceptual compound between the two and the three dimensional world, between representation and abstraction.