Still, it’s not surprising that more and more people are travelling and want to visit as many attractions as possible. In a world that’s becoming increasingly digital and virtual, we’re seeking out real experiences. This inspired Femke Schaap’s installation 'Virtual Fairground'. She has reduced the vibrant designs of fairground attractions, advertising signs, shops and clubs that attract the attention of visitors with their busy movements, colours and shapes to a hypnotic projection of colourful circles and lines that move and slide over enormous, three-dimensional geometric forms.
Even though the projected digital image is always flat, it acquires a spatial shape that can be experienced by visitors ‘at first hand’. You can walk through the different forms, touch them and even sit on them. 'Virtual Fairground' could be seen as an abstract version of an artificial landscape in a video game: it immerses you in a temporary, fictional world that can disappear with the push of a button.
'Virtual Fairground' is the latest work in Schaap’s series 'Proposals for Lunaparks', which consists of installations (ranging from small to large and from standing to hanging) in which Schaap investigates the influence of movement, colours and shapes on the spatial experience of a projection. The location for 'Virtual Fairground', the Beursplein, in front of Amsterdam’s stock exchange the Beurs van Berlage, was not an accident. Rectangular towers, round passages and triangular window frames come back in architect Berlage’s original design.
VIRTUAL FAIRGROUND IS SUPPORTED BY:
Beurs van Berlage | Fonds Kwadraat
