Travel Along Unknown © Ivana Franke Studio
In the pitch dark room, for a while there is nothing to see, the familiar world outside of us has been visually erased. As one's eyes adjust to darkness, faint shapes slowly appear - undulating lines of light precariously floating in the air. Walking throughout the room makes these uncanny light waves oscillate; their amplitudes change in correlation to the movement of one's mind and body, as if the light transcribes them into imagery capable to respond to our thoughts. They dissolve into darkness and appear at different places again.
This visual and bodily experience stretches our perceptual and cognitive thresholds, it suspends our mental habits of quickly extracting relevant information from our surrounding by using familiar categories, and we are moved to reflect on the existence of other - unknown, fictive, imaginary dimensions of our consciousness and the world.
Exhibition: 24 October - 22 November 2020, curated by Tobias Staab, Oval Office, Schauspielhaus Bochum (DE)