‘lone swimmers in the surges grey[...]’¹ is an installation work that explores images and cultural apocalypses². The work relates to an ongoing exploration of cultural apocalypses, a term used to describe a moment in time when the value system upon which a particular society is based begins to crumble. In this context, I am interested in the visual legacies that are held in our collective imagination during and after an apocalypse, and how these can serve as powerful intergenerational memories.

I use these traces as a starting point to create an installation work that focuses on the use of light, opacity and translation between matter. I am working with figurative elements (two or three dimensional) in combination with custom made projectors. The projectors are used to create a (moving) image from 3D printed resin slides. The slides are first modeled in clay, then 3D scanned and finally printed in transparent resin using an SLA 3D printer. By working with this method of translation, I aim to explore the image in its various dimensions and materialities. I am particularly interested in how the image manifests itself as memory, object or light.

The installation currently takes the form of a sculptural element, a custom built projector and a shadow image device. The projector, made from salvaged components of old electronic equipment, creates an image from a single frame. Another light device casts the shadow of another object, while a repetitive pattern animates the lights of both devices.