Robert Henke’s Lumière II is an Australian exclusive that explores the limits of what can be done with lasers, pushing the medium to the extreme and playing with its very own properties to create previously unseen images. Henke experiments with excessive brightness and near complete darkness; pure white and colours impossible to achieve with video; and shapes and movements between boldness and complex elegance. A refined piece of software – written by the artist himself – makes it possible to compose work that in the process links sound and vision. For Lumiere II, sound is vision is sound; treated as one absolute unity.
Co-presented with Melbourne Recital Centre in association with The Goethe-Institut Australia.