The cat was quiet until morning

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Opening 19 h

Performance by Reimersdahl Dippmann
All the world doesn’t spin - around you

Vinyl Music by Jean Francois Boudoir / PAMPIG

Her new installation is a monumental, rotating machine that dominates the space. A  diptych is set up by two square frames made of steel, both parts are interconnected by bars. This metal frame is covered with colourful woolen threads, evoking a delicate drawing. Radiating from the rotor planes it unfolds itself into the open space where it forms a compact volume, a light and permeable body, which ties together the two counterparts. The construction is slowly rotated by an engine. While moving, the threads overlap, resulting in manifold interferences and op-art patterns. The rotation is controlled by an algorithm that slows it down, stops it, or suddenly changes the direction – the machine seems to have it's own mind.

Trickling metal chips inside the steel bars recall the soft drizzle of rain. It is the sound of an electrostatic field, which erraticly rotates around its axis. Until the moving shadows at the wall and the gently whispering steel unfurl a story. Like the one of the cat that was quiet until morning and at the crack of dawn is ready for the leap.

Text: Christiane Wohlrab