Implicit Space
My reaction to the work of Pete Jiadong Qiang relates to his approaches to spatiality, body reference and immersion. A photo scan from the immediate surroundings of my apartment in Bielefeld was mapped into a 3D model of my private room. This breaks up the self-contained and private space and interweaves it with the public space of Bielefeld’s inner city – in this way, I bring the outside to the inside, which in turn creates a new, immersive space within a space. Moreover, the hectic pace of the city shot contrasts with the calm camera movement through the space, which ultimately results in the difficulty of orientation, and thus the dissolution of one’s own bodily reference in the space.
© Denise Albrecht