BREATH ing HEART is an art installation by Johanna Keimeyer at Art Basel 2017 at Filter 4, Basel.
The installation is a walk-in heart, in which up to 20 persons can lay and sit at the same time. This heart fills itself with air and pulses in a breathing rhythm accompanied by light, video, scent, and sound. All happening in the 1600 square meters of the historical water filter building where the visitor perceives to be inside their body.
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BREATH ing HEART
Keimeyer’s large-scale installation, BREATH ing HEART, features an immersive walk-in heart, which fills itself with air and pulses in a breathing rhythm accompanied by light, video, scent, and sound. The installation debuted at Art Basel 2017 at Filter4.
Keimeyer invites her audience to enter the breathing heart, lie down and listen to their own breath and heartbeat. “I would like to give people the experience to confront and feel themselves“, the artist said.
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