FLATLAND GALLERY

A light installation that compresses an entire day (24h) into 2.5 minutes: the experience of a day passing as if we were in a space rocket travelling away from Earth at a velocity of 299,782 (only 10 km/sec slower than the speed of light). A homage to Albert Einstein and his “twins paradox”, a thought experiment in special relativity involving a couple of twins that demonstrates that if one of them set out on a journey into space and back, they would no longer be the same age, and yet neither would be younger. The installation becomes an isolation cell where we let go of our conventional sense of time.
Light: A.J. Weissbard

Vadim Fishkin (1965, Penza, former USSR) has been living and working in Ljubljana since 1992. His work is principally concerned with science and its specific rules or phenomena, whether gravity (Kaplegraf_Zero_G, 2003), meteorology (Changing the Climate, 2004), astronomy (Am I a Star?, 2004), or botany (Self-Portrait, 1997). But the artist’s science is quite unrealistic, strange, and witty. It is not concerned with the seriousness of the scientific method or approach, but rather with the craziness that lies within a dangerous experiment. His work has been shown internationally in venues such as the 46th, 50th, and the 51st Venice Biennales, the 1st Valencia Biennial, the 1st Manifesta, the 3rd Istanbul Biennial, and the 8th Baltic Biennial, among others.