Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig presents the project ›Inside/Outside‹ by Danish artist Jeppe Hein (b. 1974). In the extension of the gallery’s upper level – the only exhibition space in the building lacking direct sunlight – a lighting system will be installed for the duration of one year that reproduces precisely the light conditions outside of the gallery by means of daylight fluorescent lights. This serves to reproduce in real time – i.e. without temporal delay – not only the gradual increase and decrease (according to time of day) of light intensity outside, but also, more significantly, renders visible sudden changes such as those caused by clouds moving in front of the sun. The prevailing light conditions in Leipzig thus determine the lighting of the exhibition space and the works on display in it. On a clear summer day with blue skies such changes will probably be reduced to a minimum and will barely be perceptible. However, on days with constant changes in light intensity, especially in wintertime when it gets dark early, Jeppe Hein’s installation will undoubtedly call forth radical, immediately noticeable visual effects. Clear, contemplative exhibition spaces usually offer a consistently neutral, ideal setting to view the displayed works. However, Inside/Outside removes the question of light production from the museum’s bounds of responsibility. The works are presented in constantly changing lighting conditions, thus undermining and disrupting the visitor’s expectations. This not only investigates a characteristic variable of institutional art presentation, more importantly, the exhibition space itself is subjected to constant change through varying light conditions. Visually, the space incessantly (re)constitutes itself anew. As in all projects by Jeppe Hein, ›Inside/Outside‹ also deals with the relationship between the observer and the exhibition space as a field of tension between physical connections and movement through space. The artist offers the viewer a changing and changeable, situation-bound context of sensory experience, which is disrupted by precisely those (unconscious) “expectations” ascribed to such a space, in order to critically examine the latter. ›Inside/Outside‹ opens at the same time as EAST, a show in which the photographs will thus repeatedly appear “in a different light”. Thus, the exhibition itself resembles a “drama production” of sorts, also serving to posit the question to which extent documentary photography per se depends on elements of drama.
Further site-specific installations by Jeppe Hein are planned for 2003 at GfZK Leipzig. In conjunction with Inside/Outside these will offer more extensive insight into the work of this young Danish artist.
Edition:
Jeppe Hein: intervention impact, 2004
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