A collection of installations by Karolina Halatek

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云端小屋是波兰艺术家Karolina Halatek设计的在地性装置作品，于2018年11月在美国圣路易斯的Laumeier雕塑公园举办的After Dark活动中首次亮相。装置让人置身于雾气和炫目白光共同营造出的“云雾”之中，感受别样的“空中体验”。作品名代表着一种形式，也代表人们聚集的地点，而森林背景、烟雾和房屋形状的展厅则赋予了自然以家的感觉。

▼被森林背景和烟雾装点的展厅有一种家的感觉，decorated with forest background and smoke, the exhibition hall feels like home

Cloud Square is a site-specific installation by polish artist Karolina Halatek, that premiered this November at After Dark, an event at Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, USA. The installation invites all types of viewers to be immersed in a cloud-like phenomenon of fog mixed with the dazzling white light, bringing the audience closer to the “sky experience”. The title refers to the form as well as to the meeting point where everyone gathers, while forest setting, fog and house-shaped location of the work fluxes the nature with a sense of home.

▼木屋展厅外部及入口区域，the exterior and entrance areas of the wooden exhibition hall

Laumeier是一家被国际认可的非营利性艺术组织，获得了美国博物馆联盟授权与圣路易斯县公园合作。项目由马克·吐温·劳梅耶捐赠基金、地方艺术委员会、密苏里州大学圣路易斯分校、密苏里州艺术委员会、和圣路易斯艺术与教育委员会共同支持。 Laumeier在位于圣路易斯县中心一个105英亩的公园中展示了60幅大型户外雕塑作品。他们每年通过雕塑保护、教育计划、临时展览和公共活动为大约30万不同年龄段的游客提供服务。

Laumeier is an internationally recognized, nonprofit arts organization that is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums an operates in partnership with St. Louis County Parks. Projects and programs are supported by the Mark Twain Laumeier Endowment Fund, the Regional Arts Commission, the University of Missouri-St. Louis, Missouri Arts Council and the Arts and Education Council of St. Louis. Laumeier presents 60 works of large-scale outdoor sculpture in a 105-acre park located in the heart of St. Louis County. Free and open daily, Laumeier serves 300,000 visitors of all ages each year through sculpture conservation, education programs, temporary exhibitions and public events.

▼烟雾弥漫的装置内部，inside the smoke-filled device

这件作品的精髓来自于清澈、明亮和延伸的空间所带来的超自然感。圆形的沉浸式装置旨在增强观者的个人体验。每个观众在与装置互动的过程中，有可能在纯粹、抽象、和让人沉思的环境中发现自我存在的新维度。作品名是指出现在太阳或月球周围、由光在冰晶的相互作用下而产生的自然光学现象。这种大气现象是在公元637年的《钦定正史》中第一次被提出的，“十晕”一节还给出了26种太阳光晕的专业术语。

The essence of the work comes from the imaginary super-natural sensation of clarity, light and extended space. The circular-shaped immersive installation is designed for a personal experience. An individual viewer while interacting with the work has the possibility to discover a new dimension of own presence in the contemplative, pure and abstract environment. Title of the work refers to the natural optical phenomena seen around the sun or moon, produced by light in the interaction of ice crystals. The first references of the atmospheric phenomenon can be found in a section of the “Official History of the Chin Dynasty” (Chin Shu) from 637, on the “Ten Haloes”, giving technical terms for 26 solar halos.

▼该圆形的沉浸式装置增强了观者的个人体验，the circular immersive device enhances the viewer’s personal experience

在展览中，天体装置的灵感来自艺术家在代祷时的感觉，它给予了观赏者成为作品中心部分的机会。Karolina Halatek专注于涉及人类感知的作品，揭示了存在的新维度。这些维度处于人类认知的边缘，是在可见和不可见之间取得平衡的未知领域。构造光的创意过程让人联想到实验室，在那里，打造艺术体验的最终结果变得独特而难以预料。而光环，则是每个人都有望发现的内在之光。

In the exhibition, the place of the celestial body is given to the art viewer, who becomes a central part of the piece. Installation was inspired by a sensation of the artist during intercessory prayer. Karolina Halatek concentrates on works that involve human perception to unveil new dimensions of existence that are on the edge of human knowledge, unknown territories that balance between seen and unseen. The creative process of constructing light reminds an experimental lab where the final outcome of designing the art experience becomes unpredictable and unique. Halo is all about the human and the inner light that every man has the potential to discover.

▼每个观众在与装置互动的过程中，有可能在纯粹、抽象、和让人沉思的环境中发现自我存在的新维度，it is possible for each viewer to discover a new dimension of their own existence in a pure, abstract, contemplative environment while interacting with the device

在经历过濒死体验，从死亡中逃离的人们的描述中常常会出现发光的通道，艺术家Karolina Halatek正是受此启发，将灯作为主要元素和材料，设计出了这个大型装置艺术作品。

The light sculpture Terminal was inspired by the near-death experiences of people, who returned from unconsciousness, reported their experiences at the threshold of death. Suddenly Terminal, the oversized light-sculpture by Polish artist Karolina Halatek. The artist uses light as a key element and material for her installations and videos.

▼巨大的发光管道耸立在开阔的广场之上，似乎全然不属于这个世界，让置身其中的人们如同脱离尘世一般存在，huge tubes of light rise above the open square, seemingly out of this world at all, making the people inside them as if they were out of this world

在Karolina Halatek的作品中，光是一种真实存在但又不可触碰的物质。光线艺术所带来的是一种摆脱了繁杂的视觉体验，用艺术家James Turrell的话来说就是一种“无言的体验”。“光是一种能够简单传达事物的手段。”Karolina Halatek在接受采访时说。利用光线，她在视觉、建筑和雕塑的表面创造了经验主义的、特定于场所的空间和光体。其艺术意图几乎与被描述为“透过光发现”的美学完全吻合。

In the focus of her work lies the power of light as something real and yet not tangible. The experience with light art is a visual one, that frees from all trivialities, an “experience of wordless thought” (J. Turrell). “Light is a means, to simply express things,” says the artist in an interview. With light, she creates empirical, site-specific spaces, and light objects at the surface of the visual, architectural, and sculptural. The artistic intention coincides almost exactly with the aesthetic described as a “discovery through light”.

▼远看装置就仿佛一道“生死之门”，from a distance, the device looks like a “door of life and death”

“让作品看起来壮观并不是最重要的，重要的是艺术家在让光线变得可体验和感知的过程中所注入的内核力量。”文化科学家Hartmut Böhme提到：“我们作为旁观者进入了一个由光媒介创造出的空间。光线艺术是很虚空的，因为它不展示任何物体或内容，但是却可以带来感官和身体的体验，并从中传达美学。”这一描述完全适用于观众们对Terminal的体验——在穿过隧道的同时感受来自光线的洗礼。

“It is not the spectacular that is crucial. Much more it is about the power of the artist’s content, who makes light in its intensity experienceable and perceptible. The cultural scientist Hartmut Böhme mentions “spaces, that are built through the media of light, in which we dive in as spectators”. “Light art is empty,” it continues, “although eventful, because it doesn’t show objects nor content, but enables sensual and physical experiences, and conveys forms of aesthetics.” This description applies directly to the sensual experience of the spectator in the light-sculpture Terminal – in which you walk through the light tunnel and experience a light bath on your own body.

▼两端的开口将身处内部空间的人们完全暴露在外界的视野下，这种处在脱离与未脱离边缘模糊地带的空间营造恰恰呼应了濒死体验的空间感受，the openings at both ends completely expose people in the inner space to the outside world

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