Sound&light installation

Sophie Guyot: The Flux House

Novi Square

 

The lighting installation by the Swiss artist Sophie Guyot raises questions about human dwellings in the future. Assuming that habitats are becoming more and more narrow and devastated this is a utopian and poetic search of the possibility that human dwellings become new ecosystems predicting closer coexistence with nature. The artist aims at grasping beyond theory, at presenting practical solutions stirring the imagination: these objects live their own lives in the night, and a walk among them carries the viewer into a mysterious fairy-tale universe. Complex sound elements emitted from the objects also arouse senses of the viewer – in front of his or her eyes, these objects transform into living sensorial organism.s of a new biota.

 

Sophie Guyot received her MA degree in art history and later specialised in making lighting objects and installations. She is engaged primarily in lighting with the emphasis on its spatial manifestations. In the recent years she has been focused on monumental installations in urban spaces exploring the relationship of man and biota. She also conceived Lamp-roller, an internationally-acclaimed series of lights produced since 1999 in Switzerland. She exhibited her lighting objects both outdoors and in galleries, and appeared at numerous festivals and events. She presented her Into the Blue installation at the 2011 Lighting Guerrilla festival. From time to time she gives ecologically-oriented workshops in designing lighting objects and installations.

 

The realisation of the installation was made possible by Klančar žerjavi, d. o. o., Gomboc d.o.o., Arboretum Volčji Potok, and Snaga.

 
/ 15 – 30 September/