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Inverted Exposure
2007EXHIBITION : Agorafolly, Europalia, Brussels, B
MEASURES : 240 x x 456 × 155 cm
MATERIALS : Metal frame, Melamine coated chip boards, wooden fillets, paint, neon tubes, fixtures, screws, computer, light sensitive sensors, cables, formers, acrylics, rubber strips
On the square named Place du Beguinage a large framed light box is placed in parallel with the façade of the square’s 17th century church. The front of this light box is covered with transparent acrylic glass and inside there are 80 fluorescent tubes. With every subtle change in natural daylight, the inverted simulated daylight within the box increases or decreases in matched intensity, so that when normal daylight is at its maximum, the inverted simulated daylight in the light box is at a minimum. At night, when luminosity of the inverted daylight is at its maximum, a wide area of the square in front of the light box is lit up.
Inverted Exposure is a dialogue between urban objects such as billboards, street lighting and neon signs. It functions as a site-specific transforming object in real-time exchange with sunlight, the square, the people living there and those passing through.
