Working on an architectural scale, these projects work beyond the gallery or institutional scale, into the space of a city.
ORT - Le Volcan Le Havre 2017 © Bruno Klomfar
ORT juxtaposes natural environments, mostly deserts in Utah, US and Sharjah, UAE, with digitally constructed landscapes, grids and atmospheres. Monumental human heads - CGI characters created from human motion capture material – are sitting in-, drifting over- and generally populating the panoramic, hybrid landscapes. Inspired by the ancient statues of Easter Island, these 3D heads, equally natural and synthetic, exist in motion loops only, devoid of bodies or agency.
ORT, after its initial presentation in Le Havre, is now shown indoors in its "unrolled" long stretch panorama form.
NATURE04 © Kurt Hentschläger
nature04 takes the concepts of time, sequence and matrix to create a contemporary jacquemart, a mechanical public clockwork, animating specific kinetic patterns throughout the night. In cycles, bursts of light spread over the sides of the tower and then subside again. Eventually there is only darkness and stillness – the tower rests as if exhausted. Regaining "consciousness" at specific moments, the light patterns often conclude with static icons, like punctuation marks along the timeline.
LICHTWERK © Kurt Hentschläger
