Light

In order to provide answers to these questions, and a few more, Vandalorum has for this exhibition invited Nordic artists, designers, light designers, architects and researchers in the area of ethnology and physics. Working in widely different areas they all have one thing in common – light is the starting point of their work.

Light is not an easy thing to describe in words, it needs to be experienced. The participants’ answers to the questions above are therefore expressed as physical installations, of which several are created specifically for Barn 1 and the inner courtyard of Vandalorum. The works are designed for active participation withbody and mind. We are encouraged to explore, play and experiment, but also toslow down in order to really perceive the miraculous ability light has to change environments, situations and objects. Light takes time.

Three different themes run through the exhibition. In the eastern part and outdoors are works dealing with daylight, how it helps us to keep track of time and howit changes our living spaces. In the middle of the exhibition are works which explore the relation between light and colour and in the western part the relation between light and darkness is problematized from a contemporary aswell as a historic perspective. At the back of the hall, in the darkest room ofthe exhibition, is perhaps the clearest explanation of what light actually is.

Initiator and exhibition architect: Göran Hellborg
Curator: Elna Svenle

Participants:
Malin Alenius – architect White, SE                                    
Johanna Enger – light designer, PhD student LTH, SE          
Jan Garnert – ethnologist, technologyhistorian, SE            
Anna Gudmundsdottir – designer, IS/SE                              
MatthewHall – architect, US                                                
GöranHellborg – architect, SE                                              
Malin Holmberg – artist, SE                                                
Vesa Honkonen – architect, designer, professor, FI            
Astrid Krogh – artist, designer, DK  
Johannes Lindén – physicist, postdoc DTU, DK
Katja Pettersson– designer, SE
Svante Pettersson – light designer Bjerking, SE
Ellen Ruge – light designer opera/theatre, NO      
Daniel Rybakken – artist, NO      
Snøhetta – architects, designers NO        
Aleksandra Stratimirovic – artist, SE   
Karin Søndergaard – artist, DK           

Thanks to: Bertil & Britt Svenssons stiftelse för belysningsteknik, Nordisk kulturfond, Stiftelsen Längmanska kulturfonden, Clara Lachmanns stiftelse, Letterstedtska föreningen, Källemo, Targetti, Värnamo Municipality, Region Jönköping County, Swedish Arts Council
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^{Photo: Patrik Lindell}