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Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany, 2007 Pulsation / cross-sections Uršula Berlot concerns herself with elementary organic processes in the natural world, metamorphous conditions of light and matter, and their analogy to mental processes of perception. Her kinetic light installations investigate relations between the material and the immaterial, feeling and understanding, the transient and the permanent. Falling through striated Perspex glass, reflected light creates monochrome, shadow-like images projected onto a white screen, the floor or the wall, thus generating an impression of three-dimensionality and the material. The artist achieves this effect by employing the interplay of transparent surfaces, reflections, shadow and light, so permitting the viewer to discern abstract outlines, landscapes or organic, microcosmic structures. These suggestive forms are associated with the mental manifestations of nature stored entirely individually in the memory of the recipient. Uršula Berlot’s light-space-installation pulsation / cross-sections consists of a heterogeneous group of works; their individual forms and content are transposed onto each other, reproduced or reflected by various media, coming together to form a bizarre, artificial, yet seemingly organic mental landscape. Reflecting and/or transparent images are inserted into a kinetic light installation previously recorded on video. Combined with light objects, they function as fragments of a bizarrely artificial, but seemingly organic mental landscape, more tangible than visible. The central part of the installation - the video work pulsation - shows a pulsating light phenomenon that the artist has created by cross-fading the video projection of an x-ray and computer-processed images of her brain with varying light reflections. In pulsation / cross-sections, Uršula Berlot aims to create an ephemeral space that oscillates between the dimensions, challenging the viewer to extend his perceptual experience – a “metaphorical space of dissimilative analogies”. |
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