| The exhibition of Roseline de Thelin’s works, “Changing Weather,” presents a Utopian Chinese lightscape composed of light sculptures, videos and digital artworks that reflect upon the many changes occurring in China today. Having viewed climate changes and the increasing number of storms that cross our skies, the artist transforms 10 Chancery Lane Gallery in Central Hong Kong into a myriad of fiber optic clouds and storms that shower upon the observer raindrops of quartz, crystal and light. |  |
Changing Weather – Roseline de Thélin
The exhibition of Roseline de Thelin’s works, “Changing Weather,” presents a Utopian Chinese lightscape composed of light sculptures, videos and digital artworks that reflect upon the many changes occurring in China today. Having viewed climate changes and the increasing number of storms that cross our skies, the artist transforms 10 Chancery Lane Gallery in Central Hong Kong into a myriad of fiber optic clouds and storms that shower upon the observer raindrops of quartz, crystal and light. She creates a Chinese landscape of Perspex mountains pulsing with LED lights on the backdrop of video images from Chinese cities. Using the Chinese book, I Ching, as a symbolic reference, her multi-sensory work represents the notion of continuous change and transformation that lies at the core of all Chinese philosophy.
The ideogram “I” in the I Ching is divided into two parts: the sun above and the rain below. Roseline de Thélin makes a parallel between the changing weather and the I Ching, known as The Book of Changes. As our planet is changing, China is experiencing an extraordinary social and economic mutation and we are, therefore, looking for new ways to sustain its consumption of energy. The Chinese cities are transforming, and a new landscape is taking shape.
“Changing Weather” is a body of artwork that reflects this transformation process by using light as its transformative medium. In Chinese tradition, light and quartz manipulate energy as they activate the vital energy of “Chi.” The quartz crystal spirals in the artist’s man-made tornados. Showers of light here become a cleansing, transformative and even enlightening experience, preparing the world for a new cycle.
Originally from France, de Thélin lives and works in Ibiza, Spain. She exhibits her work worldwide. Her creations and commissioned works vary from chandeliers with webs of semiprecious stones to ladders of intertwined fiber optics with gemstones to so-called “Crystal Doors.” For interior designer Kelly Hoppen, for example, she created a full-sized “Crystal Door” for installment in a mansion at St. Tropez.
Claude Chales and interior designer Jonathan Amar also commissioned the artist to design a six-meter-long, modern chandelier for the club Nirvana Lounge in Paris. The theme of the piece was “Crossing through the Light Spectrum.” Materials included gemstones and mirrors. And, keep in mind, these are just a very few of her many projects.
