Claudia Breitschmid (*1983, Aarau) is a visual artist working between photography, print-based processes, moving image, site-responsive installation, and text. Her practice explores how humans and their environments transform one another through research-driven projects that often include collaboration, material experiments, and archival work.
Zwischenzeit


With Zwischenzeit, Claudia Breitschmid creates a site-specific installation. Visitors enter what appears to be an empty exhibition room. Their presence activates a light control system and, after a few seconds, the space abruptly darkens.

For a brief moment, a fluorescent drawing emerges from the walls. Before the spatial constellation can be fully grasped, the light returns, leaving the drawing barely visible.

The work reveals what usually remains concealed: cracks in the masonry and traces embedded in the exhibition architecture. As long as visitors remain in the space, darkness recurs, shifting perception and opening a moment in which seeing is no longer bound to light alone.


site-specific installation with motion detector, light control system and fluorescent wall drawings
2016
photo credit: David Aebi
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