Pendulum Lights: Hadrian’s Gate, 2021

kinetic light installation

When the night, the dark side of the day, begins, light defines the visual world around us. Light not only lightens the darkness but also makes possible to create unusal environments and inspire new perceptions.

“Pendulum Lights” is a kinetic light installation / tool to manipulate how we look at and experience monumental artifacts at night. First, the moving lights attract the attention of the passerby back to the monument, which has already lost its visual power as an ordinary image in citizens’ daily life. As the passerby becomes observer the play between light, movement and shadow creates an unexpected performance on the texture of the monument, adds new dynamic layers and offers new ways of seeing, experiencing and perceiving. 

Layering “Pendulum Lights” and monumental artifacts within the urban environment, highlights the fact that the most emblematic traces of past civilizations are their artistic and cultural productions. Looking at the remnants of the past, a history of the future asks: what do we leave behind? 

As a contemporary art work, “Pendulum Lights” creates contemporary experiences and new bounds between today's society and urban remnants with its own aura, emphasizing the timelessness of art.

4th Open Air Art Space - Kaleiçi Old Town Festival, Antalya, Turkey
October 2021
Curator: Ebru Nalan Sülün