LIGHT IS OUR STRENGTH
Fri Jul 19 2022
2011
Room installation, mixed media, sound, light, electricity
This exhibition was about a perpetuum mobile that is an ever
moving mechanism, working continuously without an external
supply of energy. „At the exposition, there was a perpetuum
mobile working in the gallery, showing its capacity and produc-
ing light for a growing plant. Light is our strength – the world is
saved, scientific laws are surmounted, the times of the world’s
lack of energy are over – we no longer need the sun nor the
universe around us.“ However, Kaselaan’s machine, function-
ing in a forgotten and slightly sinister environment, is ironically
not referring to the progress of the technicized society but is
visualizing a possible scenario for future where no sun, oxygen
and all that won’t be needed. Not that the humankind had con-
quered physical laws – it is probably because the extras have
left the room and forgotten to switch off the light.