WHITEOUT
Designer: SpaceOperaForm
Location: Hallein Salt Factory, Austria
Saw this yesterday and thought it was stunning, before I even knew its purpose or what it was about. As it goes Alex Suarez of SpaceOperaForm studio has created the installation ‘WhiteOut’ as a series of sequential thermally- bonded polypropylene filaments that are essentially suspended along the aged wood beams of the Hallein Salt Factory in Austria. The semi- translucent screens move in reaction to the static charge of visitors walking through them. An exciting experience I’m sure. It reminded me of an installation based on similar ideas last year at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. It was part of a series of installations from the ‘Gakona’ exhibition. ‘Chizhevsky Lessons’, by Micol Assaël, was an installation based on a gigantic generator of static electricity. As visitors walked through the space they experienced the apprehension of static electricity re- created artificially by a cascade generator, hanging copper plates, a transformer and wires that filled the space with negatively charged ions. Although the installation was not dangerous it explored the sense of uneasiness through uncontrollable physical, emotional and psychological encounters. I have to admit, I was slightly scared.
WHITEOUT: http://spaceoperaform.com/#/project
WHITEOUT: http://spaceoperaform.com/#/project
WHITEOUT: http://spaceoperaform.com/#/project
WHITEOUT: http://spaceoperaform.com/#/project
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