edition 4:
"MÖRKRETS GRÄNSER"
Arvika Ljus! this year will explore the ‘between zones’, both in the city and inside ourselves. We invite the artists to weave in and out of shadow and light by artistically articulating the transitions between different worlds. In an increasingly polarised world, the need for grey areas becomes even more important: not to surrender to black or white, but to make room for all the shades in between. We welcome 11 artists from Sweden, Finland, Germany and the Netherlands to ‘Darkness Borders’.
During the festival, guided tours are organised for visitors. Information about the works is available via the QR code next to the works and flyers available in shops in town and at the Tourist Office.
"Pergola"
LED light installation by Simon Hagegård & Ivan Wahren - Sweden
Location: Pergola Stadsparken
Simon Hagegård and Ivan Wahren are a light designer/light art duo from Stockholm and Arvika, working interdisciplinary as architecture, stage lighting and light art designers. In the work ‘Pergola’, slow dynamic transitions in white and blue-green colours travel through Arvika Park's historic pergola, creating an ever-changing promenade that plays with perception and angles, highlighting the existing space and presenting it in new forms.’
"The Soft Bit"
Film by Jana Irmert - Germany
Art Centre: Storgatan 22
”Dagdröm"
Video installation by Jonas Gazell - Sweden
Location: Handverksgatan 3
Jonas Gazell is a multimedia artist living in Värmland. In the work ‘Daydream’, the passage of time is depicted as a TV programme in which the rising and setting of the sun takes no more than two minutes, showing only a brief moment of light in between.
I det andra verket ”Blanksliten” ser vi en utskuren figur som kröker sig av havets bränningar som sköljer över honom. Mellan havets element slipas figuren ständigt ner och blir en del av en större helhet.
"Blanksliten"
Video installation by Jonas Gazell - Sweden
Location: Kyrkogatan 28
"Forgotten Walls"
Light installation by Maaria Wirkkala - Finland
3 locations: - Östra Esplanaden 3
– Östra Torggatan 2
– Solbergsgränd 8
With the light work ‘Forgotten Walls’, Maaria Wirkkala makes the insignificant remarkable by pointing out forgotten surfaces in urban space when darkness falls. With softly mixed coloured light, she shapes areas that are not normally open to the eye, either because of their location or because they do not express themselves. Maaria Wirkkala's work seeks to illuminate shadows and in doing so she establishes new relationships between people, places and things. To see - to pay attention to something that you usually just walk past without noticing it.
"Solid Void"
Light installation by Vendel & de Wolf - Netherlands
Location: Storgatan 32
The Dutch collective Vendel & de Wolf creates immersive light installations to visually articulate the inherent beauty of the existing environment. They aim for plug and play installations with relatively simple and energy efficient materials, realised with maximum impact. They are often inspired by natural phenomena. For ‘Solid Void’, it was the realisation that on Earth, in an area the size of a fingernail, 65 billion neutrinos pass through our body every second. This idea led the artist duo to design an installation where blue light weaves in and out of spaces
"Doors to the Afterlife"
Light installation by Cecilia Ömalm - Sweden
3 locations: - Köpmangatan 2
– Storgatan 35a
– Kyrkogatan 39
Cecilia Ömalm works with cyan-blue electric light wire to draw fictional portals that refer back to ancient Egyptian culture. Two worlds meet on the threshold of these doors that merge from two-dimensional drawings to the lofty three-dimensional spaces behind them. Time and timelessness become imagined through the oldest manifestations of culture where buildings and places of worship travel through history back into our own time.
https://omalm.com/
Help is on the Way
Light sculpture by Lin de Mol - Netherlands
– Järnsvägsgatan 36
Lin de Mol is a multimedia artist working with sculpture, installation and photography. She was born and educated in Amsterdam and has lived in Värmland since 2014. With her sculptural light installations she creates high contrasts between darkness and light in the urban environment. On the border between nature and culture, her bright white objects evoke an emotional experience that refers to the vulnerability of modern man.
Parasite Geometry
Alabaster light sculpture by Lin de Mol - Netherlands
– Kyrkogatan 33
"Jag behöver dig för evigt och alltid"
"Jag behöver dig för evigt och alltid"
"Jag behöver dig för evigt och alltid"
Installation by Katrin Westman - Sweden
Location: Kyrkogatan 42
Katrin Westman is a visual artist based in Värmland who explores the meeting between painting and sculpture. ‘I need you forever and ever’ is a fragmented painting that floats in a construction whose threads hold everything together. The interplay between the floating paintings and their shadows wants to be a declaration of love to the fluidity of creation and the liberation of a painting.
"Seascapes"
Window installation by Tomasz Sekular - Finland
Location: Storgatan 21B
Tomasz Sekular is a Helsinki-based visual artist working with installation art, photography and film. In his installations, cinematic storytelling and a blurring of space, time and perception meet in strange constellations.
In the work ‘Seascapes’, based on the paintings of William Turner, he invites the viewer to participate by appealing to the senses while experimenting with an atmospheric space in the public domain.
https://luxhelsinki.fi/sv/event/lux-in-2/
"Juhla”
"Juhla”
Shadow installation by Simo Ripatti - Finland
Location: Fabriksgatan 30
Simo Ripatti is a Finnish visual artist whose works endeavour to subtly and unassumingly encircle subjects that are difficult to put into words. In ‘Juhla’, Finnish for ‘Occasion’, the shadow of a flag is projected onto a blank wall with a real flagpole placed in front of it. It is an unexpected and strange situation that makes the rational mind stop. A safe situation has suddenly become different, while the work questions meaning, memory and perception.
http://simoripatti.com
