“Passing through a Sculpture” | Around 10m x 2,80mtr | Spraypaint and adhesive film
Assistance Urbaine Renard | Photography Onur
For Quarters Berlin | Berlin GER, 2020
Base23's newest work deals with the anamorphosis of one of his sculpture designs. That term, since 1657, has been used to describe images that can only be recognized from a certain angle. His work is a length anamorphosis in which the image is very much stretched in length.
By entering the driveway that leads to the rear buildings, the viewer is visually captured by a suction that "pulls" him into the back yard. By stepping out from the other direction, the viewer at a certain point of view only reveals the “sculpture” - the overall picture. Thus, different visual impressions arise from the different perspectives that only emerge when walking through the “sculpture”. Due to the optical distortion of the anamorphs, the viewer first has to decode it in order to perceive the concrete result of the “sculpture”, which appears optically three-dimensional in the space.