Commissioned by Perrier-Jouët for presentation at Design Miami/ 2013, Simon Heijdens and his new body of work seek to create a unique experiential installation that reinterprets Art Nouveau for the 21st century. Titled 'Phare No. 1-9', this series of nine hand-blown glass vessels manipulate the dimensional characteristics of water and the way the element holds and refracts light, creating a new way of "dimensionally drawing" in mid-water.
As Heijdens says, "Looking at the narrative character of the surface of water and how, through its softness, it reveals the patterns of wind that pass over it - the drawn patterns based on live, measured wind data ripple between the group of Phares to create a story that exists both in detail within each Phare, as well as in the space as a whole, as the round volume of water forms a lens through which the drawings are projected into the surrounding space".
January 9, 2014
