Auf | Lösung
Kunst am Bau
Wandinstallation im Multiscale Imaging Centre (MIC) des Interfaculty Centre »Cells in Motion« (CiM) der WWU Münster
Projektion
Video of the 12 m installation on the wall and simulation of the light-projection

A twelve-meter-high artwork entitled »Auf | Lösung« (Re|Solution) now adorns the foyer of the Multiscale Imaging Centre. The wall installation imitates the process of visually resolving the human organism into its building blocks using different sized dots as abstract symbols for cells and molecules.

“The perception of the installation oscillates as one moves closer to or further away from it, reflecting the impossibility of the desire to perceive the whole and its parts simultaneously,” explains artist Cordula Hesselbarth (right).

In analogy with microscopic research, when individual cells become visible, only a section of an organism can be seen …

… Conversely, when whole-body imaging methods are used to represent a whole organism, individual cells cannot be distinguished. Our researchers are developing a specific multiscale imaging methodology to bring together the information provided by different examination methods.

Eventually, abstract light animations will be projected onto the installation. Cordula Hesselbarth explains: “They symbolise how the behaviour and interactions of individual components create an emergent image of the body as a dynamic system in state of constant transformation.”

Work in progress… Stencils are used to help with the onsite installation.

Individual holes were added that could not be pre-prepared by machine due to their position at the panel edges.

The three-dimensional elements were then assembled …

… using a cherry picker.

The view changes by different light and ambience …

The work can be visited in 2022.
Fotos: © WWU/Erk Wibberg