Thin ceiling
David Loom, 2010
Site specific visual installation for white ceiling room.
Wood, white rubber paint, double DLP anamorphic projection.
Variable loop (open work)
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As artist, I’m always researching for an ideal and personal dioramic vision of reality.
Not an objective reality, but a likely restatement of it.
I've built a small Urban Wishing Well and I started the Urban Wishing Well Tour,
collecting people’s thoughts and wishes in the cities of Berlin, London, Bologna..
One dogma only: the point of view had to be permanently orthogonal to the sky,
escaping the common frontal view, typical of people who rarely looks up,
as if doing so would delay their journey.
This unusual and sometimes problematic urban collecting action originated Thin ceiling,
a double temporal tunnel, a bi-directional flow generated by the intertwining of glances
temporally distant (past - present) and spatially opposed (above - below).
Only an ideal thin membrane separates the viewer from the outside observer,
both not fully aware of their dual role (watching - being watched).
Thin ceiling is a commissioned artwork for the show Mirror, mirror on the wall
curated by Ming-Jiun Tsai at TAMTAM 8 © Taiwan
Weichselstraße 8, Berlin-Friedrichshain, Germany
The Urban Wishing Well and Thin ceiling box are devices
designed and built by David Loom @ NekoLaboratoires™
Concept and global production David Loom
On-site locations assistance Paul Leeny
Logistic facilities Massimiliano Borghesi
Promotion NekoLaboratoires™
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