Blaue Nacht Nürnberg – Gesprengte Ketten

SPAR*K have been selected for the second time to display their work at the Blaue Nacht Nürnberg art festival. For the festival theme freedom, SPAR*K develop a large scale walk-in sculpture Gesprengte Ketten. The installation approaches the term freedom in a spatial context and experience. SPAR*K are playing with commonly known symbols and images. When entering the space, it becomes clear for the visitor that ‘freedom’ is experienced as an experience of ones individual limits. Hula Hoop rings, a joyful toy, are weaved together as a wall of barbed wire to create a labyrinth. A distorted image of the visitor is created with light and shadow through the chain-like blue rings in the searchlight. Inside the labyrinth, the hundredfold multiplication of the rings blurs the contrast, contours and movements of the surroundings .
The visitor thus is asked the questions: why do we think of fences, cell, iron bars and chains when we think about freedom? And how is it possible to feel freedom?
The festival ends with the opening of the chains: the artwork is disassembled into Hula Hoops again and can be taken home by the visitors as a reminiscence to the gained freedom.