BEE-RAINBOWMAKER

At this critical time for the planet, Katja Loher draws attention to the silent and gradual extinction of many species through the artifice of creating digital alternative interpretations and recombinations of reality.

Bees emanate from a floating transparent sculpture that contains prisms that reflect rainbows onto the surrounding walls. The images are projected through the rotating sculpture creating suggestive shadows onto the projections. Ballerinas mutate into bees in a multicolored game of perspective and scale that ennobles the existence of tiny beings.

Bee-Rainbowmaker is an all-immersive installation that celebrates the importance of the bees and their act of pollination, and the threats they face from changing environmental conditions. The CCD, Colony Collapse Disorder, is a phenomenon that leads to the world-wide disappearance of the bees. The Bees have a very precise and intelligent form of communication through their waggle dance to communicate the distance, direction and quality of a food source.

Loher's Videosculptures open windows into kaleidoscopic worlds of recombined images and visions that mix different realities. Visual collages are generated using footage taken from the artist’s travels in the Peruvian Amazon in combination with elaborate choreographies filmed from a bird’s eye view in her green screen studio in New York. The resulting images originate from her ongoing experiments in Cymatics - the study of visible sound based on waves of geometric pattern - undertaken in her Videolaboratory. Physical space is transformed into an ethereal world inhabited by the spirits of nature.

It is a dimension where life and impermanence intertwine. It is a liminal zone where extinct creatures and endangered species haunt the spectator through the artifice of technology: that very modern form of magic that is able to recreate alternate worlds and imbue them with life