Azusa Murakami and Alexander Groves of Studio Swine discuss their Wave Particle Duplex installation at Brooklyn creative space A/D/O, in this movie produced by Dezeen for MINI.
The installation represented the culmination of a residency that Japanese architect Murakami and British artist Groves have been undertaking at A/D/O, a design hub that was founded by MINI in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
Wave Particle Duplex is an installation by British-Japanese duo Studio Swine
Wave Particle Duplex comprised two sets of artworks that manipulate light using analogue and digital technologies.
"The installation is an exploration into the duality of light in an architectural context" Murakami told Dezeen in the video interview, which was shot by Dezeen at A/D/O. Comprising two artworks, Wave Particle Duplex was installed at A/D/O in Brooklyn
Visitors to the installation, set inside a closed cuboid volume in A/D/O's atrium, passed through a dark corridor before entering a womb-like room with a red carpet, walls and lighting.
This room was used to exhibit artworks titled Dawn Particles, which comprised four wall-mounted panels holding blown-glass tubes filled with light-emitting plasma.
Dawn Particles features four wall-mounted panels that hold blown-glass tubes filled with light-emitting plasma
"We worked with local glass artists to blow these tubes," said Murakami. "We've encapsulated a gas called krypton inside them."
Krypton is an inert gas found in the Earth's...