An Artistic Duo Created a Sculopture ‘Absorbed by Light’ to Highlight an Obsession with Phones

The Amsterdam Light Festival is one of the largest light festivals in Europe, hosted yearly since 2012. During the winter season, artists from all around the world take part in the festival, producing unique light exhibitions that inspire and inspire both its customers and fellow artists.

Gali May Lucas is a British artist and among the participants of the festival.
Together with sculptor Karoline Hinz, they created a sculpture, featuring people focused on their phones with light illuminating their faces. Created a series of statues, featuring people focused on their phones with warm light illuminating their faces. The installation is titled ‘Absorbed by light’. The artist claims she wanted to create something that everybody could relate to.

“Cycling to work in the evenings, I see folks lost in the light of Their mobile phones. On park chairs, on the tram, in restaurants — nobody talks to each other. The white light and white noise is somewhat eerie if you take a look at it in a specific way — and you’ll see this come through strongly in the last work,” states Gali.

Check out the sculptures from the gallery below, and if you’re in Amsterdam right now, you can see it firsthand Before the Hermitage!

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Polylester Studio Sets Up Light Installation in Amsterdam’s Neighborhood

Polylester studio creates an art installation that plays with darkness and light for Amsterdam hip-hop street party Bevrijdingsdub. Located in the Ndsm Wharf, a neighborhood in Amsterdam Noord that in recent years is now an arts and culture hub, the art takes advantage of this area’s lack of sufficient lighting to offer you an immersive experience.

Established by visual artist Gabriel Lester and architect Martine Vledder, that the Amsterdam studio takes on an assortment of projects, from art and public sculptures to inside and stage layout. To get void-non-void, the studio drew inspiration in the message, a hip-hop track by grandmaster flash and the furious five. As the narrative goes, in the very first hip-hop parties at the Bronx a person stood from the light switch in the living room switching it on and off into the rhythm of the rest beat. Similarly, void-non-void attributes white lights on both the interior and outside walls that at the blink of an eye transform the item from a white cube to a dim block, from an empty shell into a filled heart and out of an ideal spot into an eye-catching structure.

h/t designboom

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