Animated Sphere
2008. Metal construction, monofilament, light bulb, electric transformer. Diameter 105 cm.
Development and realization with: Tanja Cvetko, Iva Curic, Snjezana Ban, Petra Kriletic, Rado Crvik, Margareta Milacic
In a pitch-black room, a maze of tiny dots of light floats in the air. As the viewer slowly walks towards them, these specks seem to move in numerous directions; one becomes immersed in micro-universe of stars or a dancing swarm of fireflies. Spherical metal construction (geodesic sphere) is interwoven with monofilament and suspended from the ceiling, in the middle of the room. The monofilament lines are stretched from each connecting point of the sphere to all the others. A tiny light bulb is suspended in the center of the sphere. A visible maze of over four thousand dots is created by light reflected of the monofilament. Seeing the reflections, as much as the forms created by them, depends on the observer’s position, motion and walking pace. The imagery moves in relation to the observer’s exploration of the space.
Exhibitions
The Hilger Collection, The City Art Gallery Ljubljana, MGLM, Ljubljana, February - , 2022.
Ivana Franke. Perceptual Drift (Galaxies in Mind), Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, July 6 - August 20, 2017.
Yet incomputable. Indetermination in the Age of Hypervisibility and Algorithmic Control, Deichtorhallen Hamburg,
Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, November 04 - December 17, 2017.
Grusse aus Venedig, Hilger Gallery, Vienna, December 20, 2013 - February 15, 2014.
Abstraction, Modernism and Contemporary Art, Klovićevi Dvori, Zagreb, April 12 - June 24, 2012.
Ivana Franke. Kinesphere, Hilger Contemporary, Vienna, December 11, 2008 - January 13, 2009.
Experiment Marathon Reykjavik, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, May 15 - September 7, 2008.
Video: Ivana Franke Studio. Photographs: Ivana Franke, Kristina Lenard
Overexposed images
Sculpture (for rendering light reflections) / Light reflections (installation view)