“The human being has always looked for transparency and serenity in their environment”, says artist Martina Doll. For this reason, things that can’t be explained exactly are bound to fascinate us.
“This discrepancy is the starting point of my project ‘Materialized Light or LED-Light’, Doll explains. “I am using flexible transparent PVC sheets like a conductor of light. It enters into the PVC material and illuminates the film, especially the cut border.”
Encased by the transparent PVC, lights is transformed and shaped to create a composition of forms and lines; a unique “light and shadow-staging with a hypnotizing effect”, she says
How does Doll proceed to create this esthetical combination of light and PVC?
She starts with flexible transparent PVC films produced by Kenotec in Germany and cuts them in different forms or silhouettes. These are fastened in a carrier structure which is fixed on a wall to continue the design with an illumination system composed of LED´s or fluorescent tubes.
This simple idea can be taken further as the wall of the installation could be painted corresponding to the total design concept. Certain components could be used as “shadow forms” corresponding to the shapes created by light. Afterwards, a system of spotlights could be integrated to project additional “shadow forms” on the wall.
“The creating process of my works is complex,” explains Doll. “It is more a design idea than a terminated product. The idea will always be re-invented for every new installation.”
Doll’s PVC artwork was selected for the current exhibition and art project “Gewebtes Licht” (weaved light) in the ZKM Karlsruhe (Museum of Art and Media) which will open to the public in July 2011. That exhibit will be expanded with some new light reflecting “textil texturas”, she says.
How to explain that? You may just have to be there.
