Eva Bachmann

Wall Drawings

The site specific installations Wall Drawings explore a direct link between space, light and time. Shapes of light patches traced directly on a wall with chalk depict a certain time of the day. The illusion between the fixed and the transitory becomes more apparent on a sunny day, when the hard light creates an ephemeral layer on top of the drawing. It reinforces the deception between the temporary and the permanent, confounding our intuitive grasp of time and space.

In one installation, the illusion created by the light drawing seemed so real, that it convinced the cleaner to mistakenly wipe the chalk drawing off the floor, thinking it was only a temporary reflection.