Felix Kiessling
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A circular shaped object is coated with mat blue lack. Red lights are installed behind. Lila Sonne is positioned within our reach and mesoscopic scale, yet appears to have neither scale nor material.
Lila Sonne creates a cognitive visual irritation in space, a small excerpt of nothingness, a window to a space we feel but cannot fathom. It could be a hole through which we see the sky, it could be a convex shape coming towards us. Kiessling argues, this exact moment, when things don‘t fully make sense, offers the chance to glimpse into a more objective reality – beyond the way we are used to process, construct and make sense of reality and the world surrounding us.
Compared to its black predecessor Antisonne, which could be seen and understood as a hole, Kiessling argues, this colored version is a heightening of its analytical abstraction. Lila Sonne is further liberated from expression and representation and thus enjoys a deeper meditative freedom and innocence.