The Water Tank / Capillary Phenomena
Izabela Żółcińska, The Capillary Phenomena, Water Tank CCA
Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
18.06.2010 - 28.08.2010
Curator: Grzegorz Borkowski
The light installation created by fine lines of flexible red neon rope lighting on the surface of the external and internal unique object – the Water Tank.
These lines are to imitate the blood capillary network structure, which main function is to exchange the fluids and provide nutritional substances despite the gravity. Structures of this type occur in plants as well as animals and human organisms. Capillaries are also used in modern technologies.
The capillary network appearing on the walls of the Water Tank is the metaphor of awakening to life the object which is the monument of architecture (revitalized by the acclaimed Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata).
The nature of this monument, located below the ground level, is strictly connected with what is hidden inside and subcutaneous.
Warm red neon networks are a kind of energy transfusion since the colour is invariably associated with what is dynamic, vibrant, warming. It is therefore a kind of chromotherapy – treating with colour and light.
The project of the outside part of installation:
the technical side
The Water Tank section plans with the outside capillary element marked.
The Water Tank plans with the capillary elements marked.
completion
photo by Krzysztof Kakolewski
photo by Piotr Bednarski
photo by Piotr Bednarski
photo by Piotr Bednarski
photo by Piotr Bednarski
photo by Piotr Bednarski
photo by Krzysztof Kakolewski
photo by Krzysztof Kakolewski
photo by Krzysztof Kakolewski
photo by Krzysztof Kakolewski
photo by Krzysztof Kakolewski
photo by Krzysztof Kakolewski