IN THE LIGHT OF MOVEMENT

Light · Reflection · Movement · Solar Systems

project inquiries – saatchi art – about

Does the universe exist if we are not looking?

“today we realize that the universe is a universe of mutual participation.”

– John Wheeler, American Pioneer of Quantum Physics


An immersive spatial installation exploring light, perception and our relationship to celestial systems.
Created by Anita Ackermann

this artwork was aquired by BP / British petrol for lightsource bp

"OBJECTS DON'T SIT IN A BOX OF SPACE OR TIME. IT'S THE OTHER WAY AROUND: SPACE AND TIME EMANATE FROM OBJECTS."

– TIMOTHY MORTON

ALCHEMY OF A DAY
Site-specific installation commissioned and acquired by Palácio Belmonte, Lisbon.

“What we Earth- dwellers call Earth I chose to call Volva from the point of view of the people on the Moon.”
Seen from the sky, Earth offers an ever changing spectacle; Volva means it turns.

Ait-Touat, Frédérique: Fictions of the Cosmos. Science and Literature in the Seventeenth Century

MIRROR OF THE SUN
An installation tracing sunlight, reflection and movement.

Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Presented as part of ZERO Movement — Music Event Exhibition invited by matTijs Visser

EPICYCLES: IN ETERNAL MOVEMENT
Light installation exploring celestial motion and the heliocentric model.

“Whatever motion appears in the firmament arises not from any motion of the firmament, but from the Earth’s motion.”
— Nicolaus Copernicus

JARDINS EFEMEROS, EXHIBITED AT Nacional Museu Grao Vasco, Portugal