“Solarise,” a new installation by the artistic duo Luftwerk, uses light and color to produce five site-specific interventions that reflect the inner and outer structures of the plants at the Garfield Park Conservatory. The exhibition, which opened last month on the fall equinox, will run one day short of a full year, the longest exhibition Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero have ever produced.
“Solarise” is still a work in progress; Bachmaier and Gallero will continue to study how each installation reacts to the changing seasons. Fall’s slanted light has already elongated the colorful shadows thrown by Florescence, far different from the effect produced by summer’s direct sun. “The exhibition is a living, organic thing,” Bachmeier explains. “It will continue to keep evolving and developing.” v
Through 9/22/2016 Garfield Park Conservatory 300 N. Central Park 312-746-5100garfieldconservatory.org Free
