Counterforce
Installation, Architecture, Political / Social, Abstract geometrical, Landscape, Video installation, 364x320x73cm
The project revolves around my research on the founding of the >Schrebergarten*< and the man (not the founder), Mr. Schreber, who devised apparatuses that look like contemporary gym equipment and experimented with it on his children in support of his idea that children’s excessive energy should be released. He gave up on this method after realizing that it achieved limited results and instead came up with the idea of having children playing healthily in gardens that are away from the city and in proximity to nature.
My work became something sculptural, a playground assembled of several modified modern pieces of gym equipment with a small house made from a crib sitting on top.
It is an installation that can be interpreted based on it static aesthetic qualities as well as through the experience generated by personal interaction with it.
It was a playground entirely in white that blended into the snow-covered garden so well that it almost became invisible. It seemed surreal and it caused people to gaze at it with bewilderment.
The final artwork is a synthesis of intellectual research and personal emotion. It boils down to the form of a sculpture: The mere functionalities of the original equipment have been translated into absurdity. The sculptural installation was constructed during the winter. The installation transformed the garden-scape into a place where all the surrounding trees and elements seemed to begin to correspond and play a role.
Despite an extremely harsh and controversial assumption that I had came up with based on my research, the installation in the actual context in the >Schrebergarten*< and the weather conditions seemed to have contributed to a different abstract form of expression that stands on its own. While standing in a semi-public space, it was open for interpretation.
* >Schrebergarten< are small allotment gardens, in which up to several hundreds of land parcels are assigned to individuals or families for rent. The idea of organised allotment gardening in Germany reached a first peak after 1864, when the so-called >Schreber Movement< started in the city of Leipzig in Saxony.
My work became something sculptural, a playground assembled of several modified modern pieces of gym equipment with a small house made from a crib sitting on top.
It is an installation that can be interpreted based on it static aesthetic qualities as well as through the experience generated by personal interaction with it.
It was a playground entirely in white that blended into the snow-covered garden so well that it almost became invisible. It seemed surreal and it caused people to gaze at it with bewilderment.
The final artwork is a synthesis of intellectual research and personal emotion. It boils down to the form of a sculpture: The mere functionalities of the original equipment have been translated into absurdity. The sculptural installation was constructed during the winter. The installation transformed the garden-scape into a place where all the surrounding trees and elements seemed to begin to correspond and play a role.
Despite an extremely harsh and controversial assumption that I had came up with based on my research, the installation in the actual context in the >Schrebergarten*< and the weather conditions seemed to have contributed to a different abstract form of expression that stands on its own. While standing in a semi-public space, it was open for interpretation.
* >Schrebergarten< are small allotment gardens, in which up to several hundreds of land parcels are assigned to individuals or families for rent. The idea of organised allotment gardening in Germany reached a first peak after 1864, when the so-called >Schreber Movement< started in the city of Leipzig in Saxony.
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