Sofie Loscher

Installation shot of video work.

Year: 2011

Media: magnets, glass, pins

Forty-six industrial magnets rest on the ground. A sheet of glass is attached to the wall using shelf brackets with a gap of 30cm between the magnets and the glass. Four pins, with circular black spheres on the end of each one, are placed on the far end of the glass shelf, standing upright mapping out the magnetic waves from below.

Year: 2011

The image shows a stack of magnets with a piece of paper stretched out over it. On top of the paper is a small amount of ferrofluid. It transforms from a liquid in to a solid like structure in the presence of a magnetic field.

Exhibited in ‘Liminal Margins’, Pallas Projects / Studios, Dublin, 2010

Media: magnets, perspex, chain

This work intensifies the presence of energy by employing the continious and live force of magnetism as a core sculptural element. Exploring the dynamism of vacant space my concern lies with the visualisation of the otherwise invisible field that surrounds a magnet. This work is composed of two sets of two polar opposite magnets which were anchored to the ground and the ceiling. I placed them at such a distance apart so that they are continiously attracing so that they would remain in this permenant state of equilibrium, only seperated by two sheets of perspex.

Year: 2010

Media: A4 Paper

A large stack of paper rests on the ground. A concave hemisphere has been incised in the paper and the offcuts are stacked together to form a convex hemisphere. What intrigues me is that the very same line that creates concave automatically creates convex – two opposites, each existing by virtue of one other.

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