ArtScience Interlude: Nicky Assmann

Artist Nicky Assmann experiments with light, colour, motion, and the tangible unseen as a form of expanded cinema.

In Liquid Reveries, Assmann captures the ethereal, hypercolour scenes emerging from her original kinetic sculpture Solaris, where six 'screens' of liquid soap are placed in succession and manually lifted. Through precise lighting, the inner turbulence of the soap films is unveiled, revealing a vibrant choreography of iridescent colours and fluid motion. The result is a dance between ephemeral currents of colour and gravity, where liquid dreams dissolve into light.

Presented in ArtScience Museum’s lobby LED screen against the wider backdrop of the stunning Marina Bay sky and shore, Liquid Reveries dialogues quietly with its immediate urban surrounding – a welcome, elemental totem of light, colour, liquid and self.

About The Artist
 
Nicky Assmann is a visual artist with a background in Film and ArtScience. Assmann practice explores the interplay of light, colour, motion, and natural phenomena. She experiments with physical processes in the form of kinetic light installations, videos and audiovisual performances. 

Assmann holds a Bachelor of Arts in Film Science from the University of Amsterdam and a Master in ArtScience from the Interfaculty of the Royal Conservatoire & the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. Next to her own practice she is also part of the Macular collective, which focuses on art, technology, science, and perception. 

Assmann has exhibited in Saatchi Gallery [London], National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Art Rotterdam Week, Quartier 21 [Vienna], V2_Institute for the Unstable Media [Rotterdam], Exit Festival [Paris] and the Biennial of Carrara among many others. 

About ArtScience Interlude

ArtScience Interlude is an ongoing programme of time-based media artworks in the Level 1 Lobby of ArtScience Museum. At the strike of every hour, a digital artwork plays on the LED screen – a welcome pause for contemplation, reflection and a profound awareness for moments both fleeting and lasting.  

Artworks rotate every hour at the lobby.