Exponentiell
LIGHT & SOUND
CONCEPT
Dealing with exponential numbers is difficult. Perhaps because our lives are linear? These numbers seem insignificant but have gigantic consequences. They are not necessarily always negative, but they also go in the opposite direction.
The installation shows, in real time, the irretrievable extinction of a species on our planet in the year 2035. The work addresses the problem of understanding processes that lie outside our linear understanding of time. Exponential numbers only become comprehensible to us when we look at them from the future.
Beginning with the fact that a life form dies out on our planet every 9.6 minutes at present, Sven Sauer continues this process in a mathematically sober manner and creates a view of what this development could look like in 2035.
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’.
Camera: Fabian Frost // Edit: Frank Sauer