Liliane Lijn
Ruins of Kasch   2008

295 x 90 x 90 cm

Aerogel and rosin on mirror in Perspex case, perlescent metallic coated square column housing dvd player, projector

Video: Tunnel Vision 30’ looped dvd

Every time I received a package of new pieces from JPL in Pasadena, I would anxiously open it, hoping to find a perfect whole cone, disc or cylinder of Aerogel and then be disappointed to see it cracked or sometimes even altogether shattered. I realised that I was looking for wholeness, a complete thing, but the Aerogel told me wholeness was not what this project was about. I began to think of fragmentation as one of the main threads of the project and the idea of ruins took hold of me.