Bait Al Serkal
Part 9 of the photo tour of Sharjah Biennial 11: Re:emerge. Towards a New Cultural Cartography, 13 March - 13 May 2013. Curator: Yuko Hasegawa. More than 100 participants.
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Infinite Rock. 2013
Mixed media, steel, aluminum, fabric, glass mirrors, wood, rope, light, swing
In Thilo Frank’s work, physical phenomena and everyday environments are interpreted in new contexts that emphasise our perceptions of light, space and motion in a poetic and playful manner. Infinite Rock is a disturbingly strong caesura in the absolute brightness of the Arabian urban fabric: a dark volume that absorbs all light, creating a visual current that draws in the visitor. Only one person can enter the unascertainable form at a time, through a dark and cavernous void. A door comes into view, on the other side of which lies a glowing space lined with mirrors, a single swing at its centre. The inside of the irregular polyhedral rock reveals a perfectly Euclidean core that is hard to grasp as its boundaries vanish in infinite reflections, with the viewer as the focal point.
Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation.
The artist himself on the swing.
© Photo: Haupt & Binder
© Text: SB11 Guidebook
Part 9 of the photo tour of Sharjah Biennial 11: Re:emerge. Towards a New Cultural Cartography, 13 March - 13 May 2013. Curator: Yuko Hasegawa. More than 100 participants.