A Land Unknown (Belfast)

Site-specific art installation by Cyrill Lim & Marcel Zaes

Lim & Zaes' installation brings together various visual, tactile, auditory and man-made phenomena, all of which unfold on and around the surfaces of the materials on display. The works are sculptural, yet serve as placeholders for what is missing. They open themselves up to the visitor's actual and imaginative perception. In a sense, these works can be uncharted territory for both the artists and the visitors.
A Land Unknown is an installation consisting of three works, one visual-auditory, one purely visual and one Cahier d'Artistes, although not all three works have to be shown together and each work stands alone. In the installation, however, they all refer to each other.
In the version exhibited in Belfast, UK, in 2022, the visual-auditory work consists of materials and surfaces found in the space, such as canvas, plastic or cardboard, which are arranged or defined in relation to each other in the space. They are used equally as image and sound material. Recordings of a performance are played in the space, in which the material is stroked across the surface with a circular gesture, using the hand in a fixed rhythm and in a fixed form. This 13-minute action is recorded for each material and played back through several loudspeakers.

The visual work consists of rectangles of different formats made of various materials with a specific surface structure. This surface structure is filmed and projected onto itself using a projector. Slight shifts in the light and the movement of the video create an unstable, three-dimensional new surface.

The Cahier d'Artistes consists of pencil drawings that capture the ideas behind the work and the artists in an abstract form as a kind of input for visitors. It also includes texts by author and art critic Nora Kahn.

Exhibited in April 2022 at the QSS Gallery Belfast, UK.
With artistic contributions by Clare French and Grace McMurray.

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