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THE MAGNETIC LANDSCAPE
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My Magnetosphere is eternal and therefore, through my Magnetosphere, I am Eternity.
In 2011, I worked with Katrin Reinfurt on a project which became MPMP, the Magnetosphere Prospecting and Monitoring Program. The idea was to create an entity which would use every mean of creation to state a set of values and ideas, which are extensively explained on MPMP's official website. MPMP has activities in fashion, art, product design...
My Magnetosphere is eternal and therefore, through my Magnetosphere, I am Eternity.
In 2011, I worked with Katrin Reinfurt on a project which became MPMP, the Magnetosphere Prospecting and Monitoring Program. The idea was to create an entity which would use every mean of creation to state a set of values and ideas, which are extensively explained on MPMP's official website. MPMP has activities in fashion, art, product design...
The magnetosphere is the representation of an energy that is permanently around us, that emanates from us, and travels through us and the universe. Magnetism is atemporal and eternal. The uninterrupted flow of energy is providing balance and permanence to a universe in constant transformation.
Energy has no beginning, and no end, it does not know space and time, it only exist.
Magnetic Landscape - An installation at Wuhao, Beijing
Enclosed in a pastiche mountain made of boulders, on a stone platform, was a dry pond. The place seemed to be waiting for something extraordinary to happen. MPMP intervened to set it’s visionary installation in this context. The installation consists in a metallic lake, perfect mirror covering the 15m2 of the old pond, and which shape follows its wavy shore. On top of this surface, we erected two completely identical monoliths. They are faceted blocks of sleekly polished stainless steel, silver mirror for the faces facing inward the lake, black mirror for those facing outward. The monoliths are large at the base (35cm x 100cm hexagonal base) and becomes a 60cm long blade on the top edge, at the height of 2 meters.
The combination of those multiple mirrors, creates an environment where all the elements surrounding (sky, rocks, trees,...) are being reflected and appear in surprising positions. When one enter the installation, the complexity of the reflexions, and the fact that even the floor is a mirror, are challenging the notion of space. It is possible to stare at a mirror and not being able to see one’s own reflection but to see instead some rocks in the sky, while stepping, on a cloud. Some elements disappear, while some others are infinitely repeated.
Enclosed in a pastiche mountain made of boulders, on a stone platform, was a dry pond. The place seemed to be waiting for something extraordinary to happen. MPMP intervened to set it’s visionary installation in this context. The installation consists in a metallic lake, perfect mirror covering the 15m2 of the old pond, and which shape follows its wavy shore. On top of this surface, we erected two completely identical monoliths. They are faceted blocks of sleekly polished stainless steel, silver mirror for the faces facing inward the lake, black mirror for those facing outward. The monoliths are large at the base (35cm x 100cm hexagonal base) and becomes a 60cm long blade on the top edge, at the height of 2 meters.
The combination of those multiple mirrors, creates an environment where all the elements surrounding (sky, rocks, trees,...) are being reflected and appear in surprising positions. When one enter the installation, the complexity of the reflexions, and the fact that even the floor is a mirror, are challenging the notion of space. It is possible to stare at a mirror and not being able to see one’s own reflection but to see instead some rocks in the sky, while stepping, on a cloud. Some elements disappear, while some others are infinitely repeated.
The installation was set in the garden of Wuhao in Beijing, and stood there during the course of the winter 2011-12
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