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Peter Kogler (Innsbruck, Austria, 1959)
Commissioned by: IHEID

Peter Kogler has been active since the 1980s, creating digital images through computer programming. Ants, brains and pipes make up a set of recurrent motifs that enable him to evoke the visible or invisible networks that underpin our social relations or computer perambulations. His project for the Maison de la paix reinterprets the honeycomb design. Set against and juxtaposed with the architecture, a series of hexagonal cells make up a serpentine weave that deforms and enlarges according to twists imposed by its structure, sketching an infinite network of abstract traceries, which slither over the floor and wall to form an undulating fresco of sinuous lines. Visitors are destabilized by the succession of flat shapes and the illusion of depth, which quickly plunge them into a visual experience similar to vertigo. The real space seems to elude them, continuously transforming as it dips in some places and swells in others, creating a playful, lavish maze of interweaving motifs.
Article commissioned by P3Art
Notice: Séverine Fromaigeat, translation: Matthew Cunningham