CATCHING LIGHT
In the 1980s, I went a step further by transforming ‘material’ into light and shadow. My aim was to unify adornment and body.
Like a tattoo, the projected light clings to the body, changing with every movement. These light symbols are transitory, fleeting, weightless, ephemeral, worthless and cannot be possessed.
This was also an ideal medium for working with students, and I first introduced it in 1986 at the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Austria. Thanks to Verena von Gagern, then professor of the photography class, who took most of these pictures.
Light projections on the body
Students’ work and my own:
Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, AT; University of Art and Design, HEAD, Geneva, CH; University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf, DE; Zurich University of the Arts, ZHdK, CH; Basel School of Design, CH
