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july 08, 2022 - Vibia

The Five Sides of Plusminus at Fourth Space


In the baroque Preysing Palais mansion on Munich’s Residenzs- traße, a glass orb hangs suspended over a dark pool of water, its glowing reflection shifting in the depths like moonlight.

This is #4thwall, a new temporary arts ve- nue from the designer #stefandiez whose first installation highlights the versatility and beauty of his Plusminus lighting collection for Vibia. Throughout the space, Diez’s studio has created five different installa- tions that show off the creative potential

of Plusminus, a radical lighting system that replaces concealed wires with flexible, conductive textile belts. Thanks to a range of different lamps that clip onto and off the belt at any point, Plusminus lets light flow anywhere.

Each installation highlights a different element of the system, and all have been installed such that they are framed by the five windows that look into the Preysing Palais’s 200sqm space – a stripped out store inte- rior that has been left raw and bare.

The first installation, for instance, featu- res a series of 14m-long belts that slice across the ceiling of the room before dan- gling down into vertical arrangements of spotlights. It’s a display that highlights the flexibility and functionality of Plusminus’s conductive belts, which come together to create a textile canopy that runs the len- gth of the room, all while providing simple and elegant lighting through spotlights.

Between each lamp, the belt has been allowed to dra- pe according to its own gravity, creating an emotional, evocative lighting constellation that is built up from just two simple elements.

While the first installation highlights Plusminus’s functio- nal qualities, the second plays with the design’s emotive value. Here, a series of globe lights have been suspended on invisible wires from the ceiling, dangling above dark pools of water whose inky sur- faces capture and reflect the glow of each lamp, setting it rippling with the movement of the water.

A third installation makes use of Plus- minus’s linear lighting, with Diez having pulled the belt into sharp, angular forma- tions suspended above the water. With light marking out of the passage of the belt as it zigzags through the room, the installation reveals the potential for Plus- minus to employed architecturally to de- marcate space, as well as to create new lightweight forms in the air.

Across all of the installations, microchips in- cluded in each luminaire mean that the lamps can be individually programmed, allowing Diez to choreograph the movement of li-

ght across #4thwall. With Plusminus, light is emancipated from the grid, giving designers the power to conduct electricity through a space however they might choose.

Cone lighting takes centre stage in the fourth display, where the belt has been allowed to drape into delicate forms which correspond to and com- plement the geometries of the lamp.

The fifth installation is the most modest, installed with spotlights within the smallest window in the space. The architecture of the Preysing Palais is protected under German law, meaning that any intervention in the space needed to be sensitive, lightweight and minimal. Yet thanks to the adapta- bility of Plusminus, and the fact that its textile belt ensures that its installation is non-invasive, Diez was able to entirely transform the space using light alone.

4th Wall was designed to encourage public engagement with #design, with Diez having transformed an empty retail space into an outlet for experimen- tal, public-facing #design. As its name suggests, #4thwall is a place where #design and the city meet face to face. In keeping with these aims, Plusminus shows how great #design can illuminate and elevate anything it touches.

Through the careful choreography of textile forms and the atmosphere created by light in motion, #4thwall takes an empty space and conjured it into a world where #design comes alive.

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