Moutain Machine

Corporate Art  – Interroll Holding, Sant Antonino, Ticino, Switzerland

2007

“bergmachine” surrounds the viewer with a wall of sound – a metallic banging and pounding – at first seeming to match sounds deep within a mountain. However the kind of sound arising our of the cumulative sound effect, triggers lights and images of an overground cog railway. Similar constructs, like the Alpine cable-car reminds you of a clear blue sky, a blue expanse projected from a spotlight. The resulting play of colours evokes associations of an Alpine idyll created by our dream-like longings; what we sense are idealized mountain.