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title: "Leipzig Festival of Lights 2024 | \"Reflexion\" by Heelemann & Scheibe"
url: "https://lichtfest.leipziger-freiheit.de/en/festival-of-lights-programme/festival-of-lights-2024/reflection-heelemann-scheibe"
description: "On 9ᵗʰ of October, the Leipzig Festival of Lights 2024 celebrated 35 years of the Peaceful Revolution with 21 light installations. The project \"Reflexion\" by Heelemann & Scheibe was one of them."
language: "en"
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Reflection

Heelemann & Scheibe

 

Interactive installation
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at the Citizen’s Office, Dittrichring/corner of Otto-Schill-Straße

When resistance began to form in the GDR in 1989, people took to the streets with banners and placards. The interactive installation *Reflexion* presented these protests in the form of projected photographs – taken in late 1989 in Leipzig’s city centre. The demands and slogans on the banners had been removed for the *Reflexion* project. The now white, empty spaces invited the Leipzig Festival of Lights audience to remember or to take a new stance 35 years later. What did we demand back then? What does 1989 mean today? What freedom do we need? What do we want to stand up for today? Using a touchscreen, visitors could digitally write their thoughts onto the projected banners. In the present moment, this created a unique mood between past and future.

 

*Reflection* at a glance

### Citizen’s Office, Dittrichring/corner of Otto-Schill-Straße

Location

### interactive installation

Project type

### Heelemann & Scheibe, Weimar

Artists

 

 

The artists in portrait
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Heelemann und Scheibe

**Anke Heelemann** (1979) has been working with private photographs under the label FOTOTHEK since 2006. Her artistic practice includes interactive and performative formats in which she uses media such as installation, photography, theatre, language and communication. At the centre of her work are participation and involvement. A comprehensive artistic archive of anonymous private photographs serves as both the thematic and material starting point for her diverse works. Re-contextualising the material enables new ways of reading and invites viewers to use images outside traditional art spaces in unexpected ways. This continual re-evaluation and alienation creates a reflection on the construction of identity in photographs, as well as on individual and collective memory.

For several years, designer **Christian Scheibe** (1978) has been working in the field of light and media art. The focus of his artistic work lies on site-specific, thematic light installations in public spaces. His experimental arrangements move within the tension between the visible urban world and its invisible, hidden stories. The interplay between the tangible and the intangible forms part of his dynamic light architecture. The surrounding space, as a projection surface and resonating body, merges with his works and opens up new perspectives for the viewer.

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