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Karima Klasen – Project

Pixelation Space Invasion, 2019

© Wolfgang Folmer

In the 1970s, the subway for pedestrians and cyclists was clad with green-brown tiles and was subsequently viewed as a “no-go area” in the district. Having already designed a major mural painting for the school playground of a higher secondary school in Göppingen in 2017, I was invited to work out a new concept for the subway considering the wishes of the school pupil and parent community. The original tile structure offered an ideal screen for painting. The brown and dark ambient was lightened up by applying white dispersion. Pixel objects in arrow structures were drawn hard-edge-style on the existing grid of grout strips between the tiles and coloured with neon paint. The arrows point in both directions and visualise the movement of through traffic. The concept was realised with 27 higher secondary school upper grade students in three days.

What have you taken home from this project for your artistic activities?

My artistic approach enables me to design projects which open themselves up to others and become viable with their participation.