RESONANCE OF THE INVISIBLE
2024, C-Mine, Genk, Belgium
Plastique Fantastique's new kinetic artwork explores the breathing interplay of air and movement in two adjacent spaces within the former coal mine in Genk.
The first empty room is filled with a transparent volume that expands and contracts in a continuous rhythm of inflation and deflation. As the object goes up and down, it reflects an imaginary lift, evoking the confluence of labor and the underground. The surroundings are filled and emptied in an ever-changing perspective where industrial echoes are controlled and amplified.
In the second room, an over-dimensional machine, once used to operate the lift, fills the space. To enhance its presence, it is covered by a lightweight, translucent pneumatic structure that rhythmically extends and compresses. As the installation starts to breathe, the room pulses, turning a once static piece of machinery into a dynamic entity.
Both spaces, orchestrated by an auditory landscape, resonate with the rubbing melodies of the post-organic mine.
RESONANCE OF THE INVISIBLE
A Plastique Fantastique project
Marco Canevacci and Yena Young
With the collaboration of Lucas Sere Peltzer
ANY WAY THE WIND BLOWS EXHIBITION
22 June – 15 September 2024, C-Mine, Genk, Belgium
Curator: Laurens Mariën
Video and editing: Lucas Sere Peltzer
Acoustic Consultant: Misha MacLaren
Music: Skeletal Structures, Mika Björklund, 2005. CC BY-NC-ND
Special thanks to: Marco Barotti, Guy Stefanou, Carsten Reith and the amazing team of C-Mine
