YEAR: 2023
DIMENSIONS: 1 x Ø280 cm/black, 1 x Ø210 cm/bluish-mauve, 1 x Ø157 cm/yellow, and 2 x Ø126 cm/grey.
MATERIALS: Aluminium rings, Kvadrat textile, wire, fittings
COMMISSION: Possible Impossible
LOCATION: Atrium, Building 12, AAU SUND
CLIENT: The Danish Building and Property Agency Building: AAU SUND, Aalborg University
USERS: The Faculty of Medicine
PARTNERS: The Danish Road Directorate, the Danish Building and Property Agency, Aalborg University, MT Højgaard, Indigo Konsortiet, Hans Aa
TEAM: AVPD, Aksel Leer, Isabelle Maduit, My Gander, Alexandra Wedderkopp Emelianov, Cecilie Ahlgreen, Emma Høeg, Panos Stamidis, Radu Rusu, Hanna Ungar Felding, Caroline Stokholm, Mike Poompin-Pedersen, Emilie Kirkegaard Bertelsen and Emil Ussing
Five circular screens in various sizes and colours hang from the ceiling in a row in the central axis of the atrium in Building 12. Translucent textiles in yellow, bluish-mauve, black, and grey nuances are stretched across thin aluminium rings lacquered in identical colours. The air that naturally flows through the room causes the rings to constantly rotate, so that OPACITY alternately frames and blurs the motif before us. One moment, we experience the other side of the room through a mauve filter, only in the next to lose sight of the disc, when it assumes a position perpendicular to our field of vision. From the first floor, we see a spectrum of constantly mixing colours while the screens appear as dense planes when we see them from below or from the upper floors.
Artistically, OPACITY mirrors the tools used by doctors to examine our bodies. From their integral position in the atrium, the screens guide our gaze towards specific focal points in the room, directing our attention to what we see. They are lenses, refracting the motif, a kind of optical device constantly evoking and breaking down the room in new constellations with a dynamic ease, in stark contrast to the heavy atmosphere imposed by MASS in Building 11.
Link to other works in the commsssion: Mural / Mass
Download PDF-documentation: AVPD_Dokumentation_PossibleImpossible_2023.pdf
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