Best Light Art Installation
WINNER
LIGHT BARRIER Project: Light Barrier Location: Nikola-Lenivets Art Park, Russia & Eindhoven, Netherlands Artist: Kimchi and Chips, Korea & UK Client: Comissioned by the British Council and FutureEverything
The light installation creates floating graphic objects which animate through space as they do through time. A fascination with natural light drove the technique of the impressionist painters, they explored new qualities of colour and the trail of time. Kimchi and Chips’ study of digital light discusses a new visual mechanic, their installation adding to the visual language of space and light. As the artist’s inquiry deepens, brush strokes become descriptive like code, detailing reality and allying light with canvas. The Light Barrier is the universal law which separates light and material. Both by limiting the actions of materials so that they cannot move like light, and by defining Einstein’s mass-energy
equivalence formula. The second edition of Light Barrier commissioned by STRP Festival continues the work of the original Light Barrier, 2014 into a new story with new physical techniques. The visual story follows the journey of a digital form. It begins by passing through the Light Barrier, so that this digital form transcends the limits of its home reality and enters into our physical one. It then explores the possibilities of its new found physicality, whilst attempting to assert its digital identity. Finally the form travels through the Light Barrier again to pass away to the next reality.