Inflect

2021, Hamburger Kunsthalle

Dimensions
Inflect 1 (115x10cm), Inflect 2 (70x2cm)

Materials
LED, glas, foil, Wood

Photos
Jacqueline Hen

Exhibitions
Out of Space | Kunsthalle Hamburg (GE) | 2021
Collumina | Galerie Seippel Cologne (GE) 2023

Inflect investigates the perception of body and space in the face of the digital realm. How does social media influence our perception and interaction with the physical space? The light and sound installation creates the illusion of infinite space that keeps slowly but constantly bending. Another perception-challenging effect can only be experienced by physically getting involved with the artwork: the strong blue LED light creates an afterimage, leading to perceiving the environment in bright orange for a short period after leaving the space.

two people looking at an lightartwork by artist jacqueline hen

Light Art work. Blue circle with infinty illusion

Light High @ Center for International Light Art

2019, Center for International Light Art, Unna (GER)
13x8m, Mixed Media
Jacqueline Hen with Manuel Ahnemüller

The installation LIGHT HIGH is aimed at guiding the perception through targeted acoustic and visual phenomena into border areas in which ambivalent experiences set in and the habitual experience of space is abolished. The starting point was the idea of a space that creates the feeling of endless falling. A mirrored ceiling together with a thin reflecting surface of water on the ground and a gridarrangement of lights are creating the spatial illusion of an infinite vertical space of light and darkness. By traversing a small bridge, the visitor can cautiously discover the immersing endlessness beneath his/her feats and above his/her head. The extent of the infinite vertical space changes through the individual viewpoint so it can be fathomed by the viewer’s movement in the freely accessible installation.