spawn

Christiane Stegat

One particular circumstance governed the development of Christiane Stegat’s contribution to this year’s edition of the Light Trail. The artist carefully sought out a location for her art, designed an installation to fit the place and atmosphere, and only then learned that the physical environment of the piece was slated for dramatic change by 2010. Returning to the drawing board, she embarked instead on a project to create a modular artwork with which she could respond to whatever circumstances the site would present in the spring of 2010.

The chains of spheres she has forged, clustered together and draped one across the other, form a volume, a mass, that seems to fill whatever space is available to it: biotopic spaces, architectural and urban spaces, her unsettlingly organic creations colonise any existential niche they can find. The intentional association with a dollop of foam, fish spawn, or a cluster of eggs is disrupted by the off-kilter physical qualities of the spheres, their size and composition. The artificial character of these modules is plain, their mass-produced, off-the-rack nature clear. Smooth, white, foreign, and silent by day, they emit a cold glow at night. The artificiality of the components destroys the illusion of a "natural“ in the sense of biological phenomenon.

Infosystems - Ihr LED Spezialist in Nürnberg

With gratitude for the technical support provided by Schmidt Infosystems.