LIGHT OBJECT

BODY of LIGHT FRACTAL is a female torso that dissolves into light through its surface.

The upper-body cast, taken from a shop window mannequin – an object that traditionally represents standardised body images – is transformed using dichroic film and visually dissolves completely. The body loses its solid materiality and becomes a mutable form.

Light dematerialises the body

The dichroic film, cut into triangles and trapeziums, reflects and emits light, creating a play of colours within a constantly shifting colour spectrum. Depending on the viewing angle, the body appears fragmented, translucent or almost immaterial. The contour of the torso dissolves, volume shifts and identity becomes unstable. The supposedly unambiguous body transforms into a field of perceptions – multiple images of the body emerge simultaneously.

The torso, placed on the mirrored plinth, invites the viewer to walk around it in order to take it in. The viewer is invited to move around it. Through the reflection in the plinth, the torso takes on a further layer of illusion in which one can easily lose oneself.

The Transformation of the Body

BODY of LIGHT FRACTAL conceives of the body as a living, ever-changing sculpture of light. The geometric fragments made of dichroic film refract the light and transform the transparent torso into a shimmering field of reflections and projections. The body loses its definiteness and becomes an open, mutable phenomenon, hovering between presence and dissolution. In this state of constant transformation, light becomes the true protagonist – a unifying, transformative force that continually recreates the body anew.

The result is a figure that exists somewhere between presence and dissolution – a body that is not defined, but becomes visible in all its diversity.