Björn Dahlem
Black Hole (Cygnus X-1)

Sep 19th, 2014 – Jan 11th, 2015
Matadero Contemporary Art Center Madrid

Copyright Matadero Contemporary Art Center Madrid; Photo Paco Gómez
Wood, fluorescents, lamps, various found objects
1800 x 1600 x 600 cm
Copyright Matadero Contemporary Art Center Madrid; Photo Paco Gómez
Wood, fluorescents, lamps, various found objects
1800 x 1600 x 600 cm
Copyright Matadero Contemporary Art Center Madrid; Photo Paco Gómez
Wood, fluorescents, lamps, various found objects
1800 x 1600 x 600 cm
Copyright Matadero Contemporary Art Center Madrid; Photo Paco Gómez

Black holes are astronomical objects or physical models to describe the state of a collapsed star. The matter of a dead star is extremely heavy and dense, which creates a huge gravitational field around it. This means that black holes swallow everything, including light. It seems that black holes are the engines, or gravitational hubs around which the whole of the universe moves.

The installations and sculptures of Björn Dahlem (1974, Munich) reproduce the configuration of parallel dimensions and universes, forces and interactions that illustrate the physicist Edward Witten’s M Theory. Dahlem’s work and its arrangement and presence in space generate threads or membranes of vibrating energy, like a peculiar cosmic symphony. Constructions that are transformed into galaxies built to a human scale.

About Björn Dahlem

Björn Dahlem makes sculptures out of simple materials based on astronomical phenomena, creating poetic images of cosmic landscapes.

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