moodscanner: Spatial Interventions

Penique Productions - Palazzo Ducale, Italy - Sept 2011

What is imagination ?
An invisible connection between reality and our restless, working mind or maybe some kind of a bubble ?

No doubt, it's both at the same time. Creating new "spaces" out of those which already exist. Building new ones, that are different than the others, spaces which are set within new borders.
During my years of study at the school of arts in Zurich, I loved working on miniature models and creating unique surfaces and haptic environments within them. I took a lot of pictures of these small scaled spaces and their lighting. Looking at these photographs today, I recognize some basic similarities to the works of the artistic collective I want to present you this time.

Some time ago, I discovered the remarkable works of Penique Productions. A group of young artists of different disciplines, focusing on ephemeral installations, located on various different spots like cathedrals, apartments, public areas or at the Paris fashion week 2012.

The basic concept is quiet simple and so brilliant at the same time: An inflatable balloon creates a new space within specifically chosen locations. Being inside this freshly born "rooms", a new vision of the surfaces and shapes of the given structures becomes visible to the viewer. These new environments can be used again, telling completely different stories and evoking different feelings or impressions.