LUMINOUS OBJECTS
by Xenorama, Lorenz Potthast
Photos: Studio Bettina Pelz, Jennifer Braun
The Project
The project LUMINOUS OBJECT is a series of self-initiated artistic studies to explore the aesthetic of light emitting surfaces at the intersection of image and sculpture. The viewer’s visual habits are challenged and the materiality of the objects is questioned. Various transparent and translucent objects are composed on luminous surfaces, and backlit with precisely fitting animations that extend the two-dimensional surface of the screen into depth. The resulting works are produced as limited editions and presented as wall objects in a gallery context.
The first edition is to be understood as a homage to basic geometric forms that have played a fundamental role in the historical development of digital screens: The lens, the prism, and the cube. In the course of the animation, they develop their own aesthetics and behaviors, referencing the intense historical research of the Screenization project.
The Artist
How to form a space poetically by means of modern media? Embracing this challenge, Xenorama develops various forms of expression situated at the interface of film, sound, installation and performance.
With their individual voices and creative specialities, the five artists combine modern media technology with their passion for digital narratives and a highly-developed sense of atmospheric dramaturgy. Their stages are the theatre and the public space, architecture, sculptures, organic structures or even the human body. Fundamental to their work is a context- and site-specific approach, integrating the characteristics of a given space and the entities related to it. The space is thereby recontextualised, animated and transformed to be experienced anew. Their art goes beyond mere spectacle — eliciting an echo within the local discourse, while individual spectators may occasionally lose their perception of space and time on their sensory journeys. Xenorama’s diverse projects have been exhibited worldwide and achieved numerous national and international awards, including the Japan Media Award, the Lumen Prize Short List, the Micromapping Award Girona and the Designpreis Brandenburg.
Photos: Xenorama
| EXHIBITIONS (Selection) | |
| 2023 | Brixen (IT), WATER LIGHT FESTIVAL, “STRATA” |
| 2022 | Potsdam (DE): Open Air Stage Schiffbauergasse |
| 2021 | Bremen (DE): Open Space |
| 2020 | Karlsruhe (DE): Seasons of Media Art Festival by ZKM |
| 2020 | Frankfurt (DE): Luminale – Biennial for Light Art and Urban Desin |
| 2019 | Tromso (NO): Polarstern Expedition Farewell |
| 2018 | Durban (ZAF): ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Arts) |
| 2018 | Vienna (AT): UnderTheRadar Festival |
| 2017 | Tokyo (JP): Japan Media Arts Festival |
| 2016 | Tunis (TN): INTERFERENCE International Light Art Project |
| 2015 | Karlsruhe (DE): ZKM Schlosslichtspiele |
| BIO | |
| 2014 | Berlin / Bremen / Potsdam: Founded by Marcel Bückner, Tim Heinze, Richard Oeckel, Lorenz Potthast, Moritz Richartz |