TIME & PLACE was a site-specific light installation located in Søndre Kapel at Vestre Kirkegård in Copenhagen. The light installation was part of Copenhagen Light Festival 2023 and Capital of Architecture 2023.
Søndre Kapel forms the center of Stjernevejen, a cultural landscape with four, diagonal paths, with the old chapel in the middle. When you are in Søndre Kapel, you easily lose your orientation, as you cannot distinguish the four identical paths from each other. You step out of time and place, and your senses are sharpened in relation to your surroundings and your own presence.
The hanging light installation could be experienced both during day and evening hours. At daytime, the colored surfaces of the installation stood out in the natural light, while in the evening, they were illuminated with spotlights, which evoked other shades and light effects in the room. In the evening, subdued lines of light and illumination of the chapel's facade, created a scenography around the installation.
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The light installation was inspired by the shape of daylight when, at specific times of the day and year, it shines through four round openings in the chapel and forms a circular light pattern on the opposite wall. The colors of the installation were inspired by the palette of the sky and the surroundings, while the different directions in the installation reflected the loss of orientation. Time & Place was a processing of the interaction between light, surfaces and materials on site and its effect on the visitor.
Client: Area renewal Bavnehøj and Copenhagen Light Festival
Materials: Acrylic, ship lacquer, resin pigment, steel, wire suspension
Spots: Palco, iGuzzini.
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