F03.2
Lena Brückmann
Lastgang 07
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- At first you only see grey. Twenty-six bands, each one a day in the life of a substation.
- And then this one red layer. Brückmann calls it the day nothing flowed.
- The red is not an alarm. It is the pause, and it carries everything above it.
- Step closer: the edges are not painted, they are calculated. Each spike is a quarter of an hour.
About the work
For ›Lastgang‹ (load curve), Brückmann translates a substation's load profiles into layers of colour: each band is a day, its height the load on the grid. The series follows fixed rules; the artist only chooses the crop. Lastgang 07 is the only work with a red band.
Lena Brückmann
Fictional artist. Works with data from infrastructure: power, water, traffic. Each band in her load curves is one day on the grid.
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