Vanishing Point
London/Berlin, 2013 – 2014
RGB Laser, Black Voile, Code. 6 x 3 x 15m
Vanishing Point employs perspective as both tool and visual outcome to reshape, redefine and represent a space. Inspired by sketches of Leon Battista Alberti, Leonardo DaVinci and Albrecht Dürer, the work forms part of United Visual Artists’ continuing explorations into programmable architecture and creating the illusion of light as a physical material.
Light draws and constructs different geometries, volumes, divisions and architectural compositions in space that emerge from an arbitrary vanishing point. The work’s behaviour is unpredictable and without repetition, fluctuating between states in which the beams glide calmly to more pulsing and energetic movements, augmented by sound which, with its machine-like quality, has a physicality complementing the linear and flickering shapes.
