Lollipop 2002

Curator: So, here we have Regine Schumann's installation from 2002, “Lollipop.” What leaps out at you? Editor: Well, initially, I’m getting pure joy. Like, sugary, electric glee. It’s visually so playful. Are those neon lights looped around this… architectural structure? Curator: Exactly. Schumann often works with fluorescent acrylics and light. "Lollipop", as an installation, invites a discussion on space, color, and the ephemerality of perception. Looking at how she arranged neon lights in almost playful forms, she offers some galactic experience. Editor: I appreciate the candy name – it does create this sense of accessible fun. I'm also struck by how the lines create this sense of boundless movement, almost an undoing of form. I think this really connects with how it uses line to explore dynamism. Is there commentary at play on the commodification of happiness, or the industrialization of dreams? The radiant trails against a very…institutional backdrop suggests something in how modernity promises us fulfillment. Curator: Interesting. I’m thinking of the era when this was created, right at the beginning of the digital age and social media. This kind of glowing line work makes me think of dial-up internet connections, and this idea of things being fluid or flexible – this captures so well what the 2000s wanted to become. What would you compare these swirling lines to, what memory would you use? Editor: The color palettes feels hyper-real. In my mind the shapes evoke an unraveling of conventional reality, a moment of being pulled out of an understood world, maybe toward something freer. As for personal connections, seeing the work reminds me of 1990s clubs, like going to trance party... there's this invitation to move beyond our expected states. Curator: Well, what I find remarkable about this installation, is its ability to provoke different feelings. My perspective feels as though it were something fleeting, a temporal and spatial exploration and yours as a solid critique. Editor: It's those dancing threads of light – they speak differently depending on who's watching, huh? But I guess at its heart it urges you to go where you like to be and feel what you wanna feel.