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3D Light Sculptures Hang Like Ghostly Spirits

Kimchi and Chips' new installation uses fog as a canvas to create floating, ephemeral 3D forms.

Images and video by Kimchi and Chips, with additional images and video by Alexander Delovoy and Tom Higham.

Kimchi and Chips, the innovative multimedia design studio who've blown us away with unique 3D air drawings, stunning projection-mapping works, as well as choreographed light sculptures, just released a new project that continues their practice of making gorgeous art out of manipulated rays of light. Light Barrier, write the artists,is an installation that crosses millions of calibrated beams in front of a fog canvas to create "phantoms of light" that hang in the air—"floating graphic objects which animate through space as they do through time."

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Unlike holograms or fog screens that simply create planar images,Light Barrier makes "truly volumetric projections," or three-dimensional forms that float in front of visitors. Geometric shapes, ghastly bodies, and moon-like structures emerge from the designers' customized system that includes a series of mirrors and a computer program to determine the shapes.

Kimchi and Chips explain that, like the impressionist painters who were fascinated with natural light, Light Barrier involves brush strokes made of rays and structured by code, "adding to the visual language of space and light." Both eerie and awe-striking as the dynamic light forms draw the viewer in—as if touching the shapes could transport you to a magical, heavenly zone— this celestial installation ultimately creates an ephemeral mirage; a threshold to some idealized place of fantasy and wonder.

Below, check out more photos of the project, co-commissioned by FutureEverything and the British Council, and premiered at the New Media Night Festival in early June:

For more on Kimchi and Chips, visit their website here.

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