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Artificial Moon

Country: 
cn
Year: 
2007
Format:
installation

In this work, Wang Yuyang used a panoply of energy-saving light bulbs to create a vast incandescent four-metre sphere. In a poetic way Artificial Moon draws attention to the collision between the 'natural' and the ‘artificial', commenting on how the timeless phenomena of the stars and the moon are becoming increasingly obscured by the light pollution common in many contemporary cities. In 2008, Artificial Moon was suspended, like a giant Chinese lantern, between the trees of a public park in the city of Xujiahui in China, one of the few green spots in an urban context in which the real moon is often eclipsed by the radiance of a brightly illuminated metropolitan sky.

transmediale.10 are presenting documentation of Artificial Moon.

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