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Skylarking II

2001, site-specific installation with pillars, camera, monitor, and computer
Images above: 2001, Playstation (Gallery Fons Welters project space), Amsterdam (NL)

‘Organic Fusion,’ part of the ‘Skylarking’ exhibition (Part II), is an immersive installation. Eleven pillars stand scattered across a transitional space, their tops forming a tree canopy. As visitors zigzag through this spatial intervention, becoming participants, a monitor reveals their footage from eleven seconds prior, capturing their movements as if emerging from a forest.

This work probes how the experience of nature could be integrated into constructed spaces, isolating, re-contextualizing, and reimagining sensory moments—like weaving through a forest. By blending organic and architectural elements, ‘Organic Fusion’ embeds an imagined reality into a physical realm.

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Skylarking Parts I and II are environmental installations designed for De Compressie Ruimte and Playstation (Gallery Fons Welters’ project space), initiated by Yasmijn Karhof, Lucas Lenglet, Govinda Mens, and Nicky Zwaan shortly after graduating from the Rietveld Academy.

“Skylarking creates a parallel space where raw elements offer a new route to experience and concentrate upon.”
—Maxine Kopsa

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Press release by Maxine Kopsa - ENG

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Rear view, Playstation/Gallery Fons Welters, Amsterdam (NL)

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After visitors zigzag through the pillars, they see a monitor showing them eleven seconds prior, weaving between the pillars as if emerging from a forest.

Video still from monitor
Video still from monitor
Video still from monitor
Video still from monitor