Deal
LIGHT & SOUND
CONCEPT
ARTIST
SVEN SAUER
Sven Sauer is a Berlin based artist. Focusing on the connection between social movements and local structures in megacities, his mostly audiovisual installations expose symptoms of society and show the pace of our development-orientated technology, which seems to have overwhelmed the human capacity for absorption. He usually does not express a firm opinion but rather leads viewers to question their own point of view.
Cofounder of the art collective ‘360 minutes art’, from 2016, he also created large exhibitions and art festivals in Berlin with the groups ‘The Dark Rooms Exhibition’ and ‘Wir im Raum’. His work also range through the theatre and to the VFX, working on international film productions – such as ‘AtomicBlonde’, ‘Hugo Cabret’ and ‘Game of Thrones’.
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Camera: Fabian Frost // Edit: Frank Sauer
The light and sound installation reflects the pressures of a meritocratic world where performance dictates success. Pulsing lights and shifting soundscapes mirror the artist’s experience of creative freedom exchanged for the pressure to perform. As the artist slows down due to a chronic illness, the erratic lights and fragmented sounds capture the uncertainty of managing symptoms with medication, whose long-term effects remain unknown. The installation asks: how does it feel to make a deal where the outcomes are unclear, but the pressure to keep up persists?