The Fans

RAW color is a studio based in the Netherlands, working across different disciplines including graphic design, photography, textile … The Fans is an installation created for an exhibition at the LYNfabrikken in Denmark. It consists of a tribune with 15 coloured fans, spread out on three rows. Each blade of the fan has a different color. When the fans start working, the combination of color and motion creates beautiful blended circles.
Because these fans are placed on three different rows they can perform a choreography, on a stage before a pitch blak backdrop. When ‘performing’, the working fans interact with the ones that are standing still creating inspiring and tantalizing motions and patterns.

The starting point for the installation was the combination of two intriguing phenomena. On the one side it is colour and its physical quality and on the other side it is the element of motion and its dynamic nature. To unite these qualities the electric fan has been chosen as a tool. Placed on a podium a group of fans will show their different states by performing a choreography blending colour and motion. The installation is created for the exhibition at LYNfabrikken Box - Aarhus, Denmark 29/08/14 - 02/11/14. LYNfabrikken BOX is in many ways a very special space with its own set curatorial principles, alternative physical scenography and dogmas. The purpose of BOX is to make room for exhibitions by designers, architects and craftsmen of a more conceptual nature, that blurs the boundaries between design and art. LYNfabrikken was founded in 2002 by Louise Gaarmann, Jeppe Vedel and Lasse Schuleit, who have a passion for design, people and creative ways of bringing the two together. Coding: Mark Brand Installation furniture: Max Lipsey www.lynfabrikken.dk