Interview with Gwenaël Nicolas

”I wanted to imagine a space with no gravity,” Gwenaël Nicolas comments on his project, which consisted of two separate designs. The first item was almost, “not an object anymore, where crystal and light become life.” Nicolas created large, free-floating, transparent balloons filled with helium, in which floated a small crystal sculptures lit by a battery powered LED inside. The balloons, which measured 2.4m in diameter, drew on NASA technology to enable them to be as thin and transparent as possible. The LED light emanating through the crystal within set off a series of ‘sparks’ which moved as the balloons and crystals gently floated through the room. A separate design consisted of a 10m long string of crystals incorporating LED lighting that was programmed to set off more ‘sparks’ which jumped along the length of the rope.