The immaterial and intangible character of light, colour and motion forms the starting point of Nicky Assmann's (born 1980 in Utrecht) spatial installations, in which she endeavours to heighten the perception. With a background in Film and ArtScience, she combines artistic,
scientific and cinematographic knowledge in experiments that use physical and chemical processes. By implementing natural and optical phenomena she creates visual music compositions for an immersive and sensorial experience. The resulting visual,
kinetic, and spatial compositions evoke sensory interference in self-created and often ephemeral macro-universes. In the lineage of
expanded cinema, Assmann experiments in her work with the different components of the cinematic apparatus. She creates her own screens with materials that range from iridescent soap films, heat-stained and chemicallytreated copper sheets, to metal grids and kinetic transparent plates with moiré patterns. Her work takes shape in the form of kinetic light installations,
video-installations and performances. Besides expanded cinema, her work is embedded in a context of visual music, synaesthesia and what Assmann calls "hypercolour". The sun inspires her work in a perpetual quest for "hypercolours"—they are brought out by its light and occur both in nature and the digital colour spectrum. "Hypercolours" are characteristic for her work.
