14 – Margareta Hesse »No Barrier«

Margareta Hesse’s laser installations transform locations into multisensory experience zones where visitors can rediscover familiar spaces. Barriers of light appear to block the way, inviting visitors to explore this special focused light with its millions of rotating points of light up close. Thanks to a safety mechanism in the devices the viewers can pass through the glistening red beams of light unharmed and immerse themselves in the kinetic light plane, an area of light. Thanks to a safety mechanism in the devices, however, viewers can pass through the obstacles of glistening red rays of light unscathed and immerse themselves in the kinetic light plane, a surface of light, as if in a sea. Accompanied by a minimalist organ soundscape, the installations interweave with the architectural and semantic structure of the baroque Trinity Church. A time-stretched choreography transports viewers away from the haste of the quick glance.

The painter and light artist Margareta Hesse, former professor at Dortmund University of Applied Sciences, has been living and working in Berlin since 2005. Inspired and fascinated by the “immateriality” of laser light, which appears as tangible matter in a fine haze, Margareta Hesse has been developing expansive, walk-in, interactive sculptures with red lasers since 2008, which she has exhibited in museums and at light art festivals in many countries. Since 2008, Margareta Hesse has been represented in numerous solo exhibitions and light art projects in Germany and internationally.