LAURA A DIMA

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Teaser about my new work SKYMAP, you can see the full installation on 13 May during WOW Open AIR 2017

SKYMAP deals with concepts of time, infinity and the sacred. It shows all the stars visible in the course of one year. This cycle repeats over and over again just as the artist repeatedly punched by hand every hole for every star on the map.

During the day the sunlight shines through the stars inside and at night the map will be visible from the outside. This intervention transforms one WOW studio into a sacred space; the windows wear a psychedelic light installation comparable to the atmosphere created by the stained glass in gothic churches.

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Atlantis

sketch for the installation with self made projector of water waves

Atlantis is a continuation of my research but in the same time also a reaction to the works of Linda and Ting. Researching about the great architectural achievements of the ancient civilizations I kept asking myself where are we now? How come so much knowledge has been lost? Where is the real truth of the ancient mysteries? I translate this curiosity in the shapes I choose to work with such as the pyramids, circles and squares and then really focusing in finding the right proportions, the perfect balance. Atlantis, as a metaphor was a good starting point to implement these ideas. So I took water and architecture as my tools to create this world. The sculpture draws inspirations from the monumental architectural shapes. It is the temple of the light, which projects the reflections of the water to the outside. It sends the motion of the waves to the audience, the walls, whatever comes in its way and until it finds the surface to lay its image. Water as an element can influence the way we experience the space that is why the greenhouse will have water as a present performer in the space. The audience will be “baptized” while entering the space, as a ritual that they have to accept in order to be part of the happening.  So the work consists of the actual object that creates these reflections but most important is the atmosphere and the experience it offers to visitors.

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Atlantis

installation with self made projector of water waves

Atlantis is a continuation of my research but in the same time also a reaction to the works of Linda and Ting. Researching about the great architectural achievements of the ancient civilizations I kept asking myself where are we now? How come so much knowledge has been lost? Where is the real truth of the ancient mysteries? I translate this curiosity in the shapes I choose to work with such as the pyramids, circles and squares and then really focusing in finding the right proportions, the perfect balance. Atlantis, as a metaphor was a good starting point to implement these ideas. So I took water and architecture as my tools to create this world. The sculpture draws inspirations from the monumental architectural shapes. It is the temple of the light, which projects the reflections of the water to the outside. It sends the motion of the waves to the audience, the walls, whatever comes in its way and until it finds the surface to lay its image. Water as an element can influence the way we experience the space that is why the greenhouse will have water as a present performer in the space. The audience will be “baptized” while entering the space, as a ritual that they have to accept in order to be part of the happening.  So the work consists of the actual object that creates these reflections but most important is the atmosphere and the experience it offers to visitors.

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Atlantis

installation with self made projector of water waves

2017

Atlantis is a continuation of my research but in the same time also a reaction to the works of Linda and Ting. Researching about the great architectural achievements of the ancient civilizations I kept asking myself where are we now? How come so much knowledge has been lost? Where is the real truth of the ancient mysteries? I translate this curiosity in the shapes I choose to work with such as the pyramids, circles and squares and then really focusing in finding the right proportions, the perfect balance. Atlantis, as a metaphor was a good starting point to implement these ideas. So I took water and architecture as my tools to create this world. The sculpture draws inspirations from the monumental architectural shapes. It is the temple of the light, which projects the reflections of the water to the outside. It sends the motion of the waves to the audience, the walls, whatever comes in its way and until it finds the surface to lay its image. Water as an element can influence the way we experience the space that is why the greenhouse will have water as a present performer in the space. The audience will be “baptized” while entering the space, as a ritual that they have to accept in order to be part of the happening.  So the work consists of the actual object that creates these reflections but most important is the atmosphere and the experience it offers to visitors.

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Unikat, June 2016

stage design

concept and direction: Astrit Ismaili performance: Astrit Ismaili, Suwanne Jo

photography Thomas Lenden

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Unikat, June 2016

stage design

concept and direction: Astrit Ismaili performance: Astrit Ismaili, Suwanne Jo

photography Thomas Lenden

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Model for a Monument (2016) has been displayed in the WOW Amsterdam lobby for the moths April, May and June until yesterday !

ceramics

Model for a Monument is a continuation of an ongoing project, an exploration of reviving the tradition of archaic monuments, which incorporate elements of the transmundane, as opposed to the purely functional pragmatism of architecture today.

Fascinated by ancient formations, sacred geometry and symbolism, the artist reflects on the meaning of magical objects in our daily life and how much they influence the decisions we make - or the other way around.

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Laura A Dima as The Oracle photographed in her studio, April 2016

The oracle is back and dreaming of future saints!

You can meet the Oracle again on the stage of Paradiso on 16th April representing the House of UltraSexi during Superball 2016.

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Model for a Monument

Installation for WOW Open AIR 2016

Ceramics, Wood pedestals, Lights

photography by Francoise Bolechowski

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Model for a Monument (detail) will be displayed in Amsterdam at WOW Open AIR 2016 (part of 24H West) 12 March 2016, an evening of art, performance and fun!

Model for a Monument is a continuation of an ongoing project, an exploration of reviving the tradition of archaic monuments, which incorporate elements of the transmundane, as opposed to the purely functional pragmatism of architecture today.

Fascinated by ancient formations, sacred geometry and symbolism, the artist reflects on the meaning of magical objects in our daily life and how much they influence the decisions we make - or the other way around.

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Model for a Monument, Object Rotterdam 2016

Ceramics

Model for a Monument is a continuation of an ongoing project, an exploration of reviving the tradition of archaic monuments, which incorporate elements of the transmundane, as opposed to the purely functional pragmatism of architecture today.

Fascinated by ancient formations, sacred geometry and symbolism, the artist reflects on the meaning of magical objects in our daily life and how much they influence the decisions we make - or the other way around.

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Do you believe that objects can posses magic or is it us that attribute the magic to objects? That is the question that revolves around the new work that will be shown during Object Rotterdam, fair for contemporary design, 12- 14 February, 11 - 19 h !

for more info check website http://objectrotterdam.com/

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Do you recognize these symbols? Join me for a discussion about objects and magic during Object Rotterdam, fair for contemporary design, 12- 14 February, 11 - 19 h !

for more info check website http://objectrotterdam.com/

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Fashion Installation I designed for Karim Adduchi’s exhibition ‘She Knows Why the Caged Bird Sings’ at WOW Amsterdam

Installation with Plexiglas walls, White stones, Bird cage, White cannaries

Picture by Francoise Bolechowski

2015

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Detail of the fashion Installation I designed for Karim Adduchi’s exhibition ‘She Knows Why the Caged Bird Sings’ at WOW Amsterdam

Installation with walls of Plexiglas, Bird cage

Picture by Maarten Nauw

2015

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 Fashion Installation I designed for Karim Adduchi’s exhibition ‘She Knows Why the Caged Bird Sings’ at WOW Amsterdam

Installation with walls of Plexiglas, Bird cage

Picture by Fabian Landewee

2015