spring Snow Blossom. The form of the neon light installation originates from a detail found on a historical pattern roller. The originally nostalgic and fragile aspect is replaced by a pulsating glow, and the oversized shape created by the blow-up process gives the blossom a powerful appearance. The overall spatial atmosphere follows the changing color scheme of the installation.
55 chapters. The room-filling installation extends across the entire walls of the main room of Raum 001. Based on the novel 'Spring Snow' by Yukio Mishima, each of the 55 works represents a chapter of the book. Text fragments from the respective chapters were visualized using Nils Dunkel's own artistic vocabulary: Black and white photographs are overlaid with historical pattern rollers and black ink, and a color filter film sets the mood. Like memories from the past, from faded to brightly glaring.
Graduation tattoo. The interactive work lets visitors walk over a large ink pad, leaving footprints on bookbinding cardboard (laid out in the style of Japanese tatami mats). While the footprints are initially easy to follow, the cardboard is gradually saturated with black ink. Individual patterns (shoe prints) are overwritten in temporal layers. At a certain point, entering the small space becomes anonymous; delicate black patterns have transformed into a monochrome field of color, seemingly covered in black snow.
