Lightworks by Aly Indermühle were exhibited with Mars Gallery at Art Central Hong Kong in 2017. 

From the Exhibition Catalogue.

The advertising industry has long understood the qualities and importance of light as a vehicle to deliver a message or extract an emotion. From garish, pulsating, neon soft drink signs to the shadowy subtlety of a Tom Ford fashion shoot (and everything in between,) light helps tell a story. Aly Indermühle understands light as a powerful medium.

“Light is precious in Alaska,” says Aly, who grew up in the North American state, where “some days we had just a few hours of daylight.” Moving to Australia thirteen years ago only intensified Indermühle’s appreciation for light. Living in country New South Wales, she witnessed “sunsets that seemed to go on forever and a sky that had its very own shade of blue.”

The work created for Hong Kong is sophisticated. Light and colour are guided, seemingly manipulated, by the twists and turns of the aluminium ‘ribbon’ image in the foreground. Employing LED lighting and Nanotechnology, Indermühle shapes images that evoke different memories or imaginings in the viewer. And there is more: the artworks move, and they breathe. They are almost human, in a way, and they elicit various emotions. These works represent Indermühle’s steps toward employing further artificial intelligence in her work.

Elegance is the first word that comes to mind when viewing Indermühle’s work: an elegant idea coupled with elegant execution. It was not surprising that her work caught the attention of the curators of Vivid Sydney, Australia’s premier Light, Music, and Ideas Festival and was included in the 2016 event and will be again in 2017.

Helen McKenzie, 2017