Bad Fürstenberg
2013
draft for a permanent installation
in the former town's resort administration
Fürstenberg/Havel, Germany
1st price, art competition
WasserStadtKunst
"Bad Fürstenberg" is an installation that showes with simple means the interaction between illusion
and refection.
The word "Bad" means in German as much as spa, bath and swimmingpool.
There only seems to be water involved, the depths of the pool is an optical illusion and
calling Fürstenberg officially a spa is pur fiction. Although it used to be a health resort.
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Large windows give insight into the space of the past resort administration.
Above the entrance is written "Bad Fürstenberg" in black letters.
The virtual swimmingpool inside the building appears through a ceiling marked with black lines,
a tiled rear wall and a reflecting ground floor out of blue-tinted glass.
The mirror image of the interior is what creates the illusion of a deep pool, to be seen from outside the windows
The website www.badfuerstenberg.de shall become a pool for art works and literature related to
Fürstenberg, for
reflecting in different ways the present image as well as the controversial history of that small town north
of Berlin next to the beautiful Mecklenburg lake district.
