Rumble Fish (Inky Abyss)

Drott johan Löfgren, Loove Broms, Olof Bendt

In Drott Johan Löfgren’s installation Inky Abyss a fish appears to play the lead role. A fighting fish is swimming in an aquarium, its movements monitored by a camera and transferred to a digital painting. At first glance it might appear that Löfgren is continuing work performed by the Dada about randomness, and via Jean Tinguely has constructed a painting machine where the fish assumes the role of the painter. But this piece contains something else, as Löfgren takes a keen interest in the painted or drawn line, not least the line made by natures itself. Here he uses technology mainly to make the invisible and ephemeral drawings made by the fish to his own images.

Rumble Fish was developed as part of the Man Machine project.