“Timelapse” at Benrath Palace, Düsseldorf, 2016 — image copyright and courtesy of Günter von Ameln
Timelapse
Installation, Abstract geometrical, Organic material, 450x15x450cm
Jennifer López Ayala, “Timelapse”, in-situ installation at Benrath palace, Düsseldorf, Germany.
By using broken eggshells in my installations, I create a multitude of different shades of white in the exhibition space as rays of light will be broken at the innumerable sharp edges of the shells—a flittering magical moment, citing an optical phenomenon like the graphic alternation of light and dark in drawings or the pointillists’ refined approach to depicting light: a spatial painting.
The mental image of the everyday object, “eggshell”, is thus psychologically redefined: it appears like a white sea of soft flowers in the installation.
Additionally, I involve the spectator himself and his body into the architecture of the exhibition: the room is purposefully modified with paint and film to dissolve the structure of the prevailing architecture and the medium. The exhibition space becomes the art space and the artwork leaves the picture plane, while the spectator physically enters it. During this development, the organization and re-organization of the picture and its surroundings gains ever more importance, which finally leads to the philosophical question, “Who or what is the material of the picture? You, myself, the egg, or the space?”
http://www.jlpz.de/
By using broken eggshells in my installations, I create a multitude of different shades of white in the exhibition space as rays of light will be broken at the innumerable sharp edges of the shells—a flittering magical moment, citing an optical phenomenon like the graphic alternation of light and dark in drawings or the pointillists’ refined approach to depicting light: a spatial painting.
The mental image of the everyday object, “eggshell”, is thus psychologically redefined: it appears like a white sea of soft flowers in the installation.
Additionally, I involve the spectator himself and his body into the architecture of the exhibition: the room is purposefully modified with paint and film to dissolve the structure of the prevailing architecture and the medium. The exhibition space becomes the art space and the artwork leaves the picture plane, while the spectator physically enters it. During this development, the organization and re-organization of the picture and its surroundings gains ever more importance, which finally leads to the philosophical question, “Who or what is the material of the picture? You, myself, the egg, or the space?”
http://www.jlpz.de/
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