Inside Configurations: Lines, Light and Nodes of Convergence

Exhibition Opening
10.5.2018 (Thu) at 7:00 PM in the presence of Cornelia Erdmann

About the Exhibition

A ship cuts through the waves, towing behind a small object looking a bit like a waterproof flashlight. Every so often the object creates a pulse of sound, a high-pitched “ping”, not audible above the surface, but travelling for miles under the waves until it’s reflected by the seabed down in the eternal darkness of the ocean. A little while later the ping’s much softer echo will be picked by the ship’s receivers.
 
As the ship unfailingly ploughs the water in ever new parallel furrows, continuously communicating with the grounds below, an abstract drawing of glowing lines emerges out of the dark, tracing the hidden landscape that may never actually be seen otherwise.
 
In her installation Inside Configurations, Cornelia Erdmann explores the sonar’s potential as a metaphor for the atmospheric investigation of the ephemeral intangible, yet experiential quality of space. This artificial landscape of abstract lines and light objects built inside the gallery challenges the in-between of the material world and us, extends our perception and thus our imagination, converging physical environment with felt space in instances of contiguity.

Cornelia Erdmann

© Cornelia Erdmann Cornelia Erdmann is a German visual artist based in Hong Kong since 2006. She studied architecture in Weimar at the Bauhaus University and at Waseda University Tokyo, Japan. Following, she also graduated with an MFA in Public Art and New Artistic Strategies from Bauhaus University Weimar. With her background in fine art as well as in architecture she likes to blur the boundaries between creative disciplines and subjects specialising in public art and commissions.
 
She uses light as an integral medium in her pieces. The intangible light and the physical space have reciprocal qualities and depend on each other which in combination with other materials and/or technologies she employs to create playful site-specific installations that interact and surprise the audience on various levels.
 
In recent years she had works commissioned – mostly for hospitality, commercial spaces and offices, but as well as private homes – in Hong Kong, China, Singapore, and the UK. She has also exhibited in museums, galleries and at art festivals in Australia, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, and the UK. Possibly her best known work is the light sculpture "The People" for the main lobby in the new Legislative Council Complex in Hong Kong.