Light Synthesis
2025
4 video/animation installations
Light Synthesis (Danish title Lys Syntese) explores transformation and time, inspired by the oxygen released by the earliest algae—the foundation for all life on Earth. Algae evolved by incorporating cyanobacteria, gaining the ability to photosynthesize, becoming precursors to plants and complex life forms. Macroalgae, or seaweed, emerged in the oceans around a billion years ago.
The works consist of video and animations projected onto the raw architecture of a water tower, transforming floors and columns into luminous, floating phenomena. On the columns, pieces of sugar kelp rotate slowly like ephemeral beings guided by rhythm, movement, and light.
The animations feature sugar kelp, finger kelp, and bladder kelp, and in one work, an oxygen molecule. Created as point clouds—particle-like structures of glowing dots derived from video footage—each form is a temporary figure, a porous and open image, as if perpetually emerging or dissolving.
CG Generalist Sophia Ioannou Gjerding
Light Synthesis was my contribution to Tang:Transformationer, an installation developed for Delte Vande #2 in Brønshøj Vandtårn.
Tang:Transformationer showed works by Marianne Johnstad-Møller, Alberte Holmø Bojesen and Emmanuel Martini. Curated by Curated Works / Lawrence Ebelle
Tang:Transformationer installation view
