KUNST ‘Sea of Stories’ by Studio Quirin Krumbholz

The “Sea of Stories” is a mesmerizing kinetic art installation based on the fundamental force of magnetism. Unlike certain species in sharks and birds, humans lack the sense of Magnetoreception. The works of Quirin Krumbholz are revealing the presence of magnetic fields in unexpected and mind-blowing ways. Floating liquids with constantly changing patterns that are just hanging on thin cables, “hedgehogs” made of powder, walking upside down over ceilings and “powder beasties” spiraling along walls. 

Within the “Sea of Stories” it first seems for the naked eye that the wavelike patterns are in a constant loop. In reality, every iteration creates a unique formation(or story) of the ferrous particles adapting and altering the stories in their context. In the words of Salman Rushdie: “Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old--it is the new combinations that make them new.”