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Light, the heart of the sculptures, is treated as material, shining through the grooves of the metallic structure, projected from it, onto it and reflected back into space in delicate surprising projections, opposing to the metallic mass.

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During the day, the sun’s rays, as a source of external light, create one interaction with the sculptures, and when it's dark, an internal LED light source shines out of the sculptures creating another kind of relationship with the environment. Both modes of light reflections in space create unique situations where the boundaries between the sculptures, the environment and the person looking at them and reflecting on them are blurred.

The lighting sculptures manufacturing process includes craft and industrial processing. The manual bending work transfers the stiff cold metal into a soft, human and warm object. The production of the sculptures starts with cutting and bending in the industrial factory and is finished at the workshop with an artistic touch and manual bending of the pieces one by one. The rigidity is replaced by flexibility, the cold is replaced with warmth and the light that enters at the end, gives the sculptures the aura of life.

Shiny Lights sculptures, Chen Taoz, 2020.

Heights from 90 to 180 CM.

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