What do we actually see? Fact: white light is not perceived as the same white in all cultures.

Natural sunlight prismatic colors projected onto transparent sculptures at night during Copenhagen Light Art Festival 2019 in collaboration with Anders Thorseth from DTU Fotonics. Art and science comes together and opens up our experience of colour and that the world might have a quite multidimensional view, that we constantly interpret and try to understand.

Why can we see complimentary colors with the human eye, that we cannot measure? What is pure registration and what is culture? Artist´s have always found inspiration in Wolfgang von Goethe´s experience oriented colorspectum and western science have in many ways been build upon Isaac Newton, who first proved a colorspectum with sunlight through a glass prism.

The project also consisted of workshops in collaboration with architect Sara Mesquita where participants could build their own physical prism filter from cardboard and glass prisms and upload a photo to Orestadens Instagram.

With the installations, I wanted to create organic lines in Orestaden´s monumental architecture and connections to the water in the canals, the sunlight and the human scale through a series of immersive, transparent orbs hovering over the water in the canals and projected slow, turning colorspectrums made entirely from prismatic effect and sunlight. On the lawn, running through one of the installations, were a large scale graphic line of lightwaves in grasspaint, that dissapeared over time.

Commissioned by Grundejerforeningen Orestad Nord and Orestad Vandlaug. In collaboration with DTU Fotonics and Engelbrecht Construction.

Photography (picture 1 & 2) : Marcus Frostholm