Hypershadow (2019) Tim Otto Roth takes the inversion of space to the extreme with a luminous cube sculpture. It is a kind of matryoshka game of dimensions: the luminous walls of the cube reveal the anaglyphic shadows cast by a geometric body inside the cube, which is illuminated from the centre. However, this body is literally a shadow of its former self, as it is the projection of a four-dimensional body. A simple cube shape is transformed into a hyperdimensional shadow sculpture.

ⓘ approx. 50x50x50 cm, acrylic glass, digital print, LED light source

Drôle de l'ombre (2017/19) The Volx-TV on which this work is based originated from an idea by Jördis Drawe and Uwe Schüler: A mini shadow theatre in which a small, self-selected object rotates on a 'stage', illuminated from behind by an LED, casting its shadow onto the front screen. Tim Otto Roth hacked this DIY set and replaced the light sources with two LEDs in red and blue.
For the exhibition Schatten im Blick? (Shadows in View?) at the Wallraf-Richartz Museum, the work enters into dialogue as Drôle de l'Ombre with the copperplate engraving of Plato's allegory of the cave by Jan Saenredam from 1608, displayed opposite. The bizarre figures from Ovid's Metamorphoses, who have obviously lost their way in the cave and cast their peculiar shadows there, were remodelled as small figures. Now they make their rounds in the miniature shadow theatre.

ⓘ approx. 20x18x20 cm, plywood, electronics, motor, LED, transparent paper

Silicon as a shadow catcher Another cube-shaped work from the cycle Shadow.Time.Spaces employs a delay tactic. The transparent acrylic glass cube builds on Roth's early video shadow recordings from the 2000s: A light source mounted on a clock hand projects the shadow of a miniature object onto the silicon video chip of a surveillance camera. An anaglyphic shadow space is ultimately created on a small screen by superimposing the live shadow video image with the delayed image from one second ago.

ⓘ approx. 15x15x15 cm, acrylic glass, mechanical clockwork, LED, CCD chip, Raspberry Pi, miniature screen

New Year's Edition At the turn of the year 2015/16, Tim Otto Roth designed a home version of the hyper shadow. For this New Year's greeting, he designed a cut-out sheet as a limited offset edition, which was sent out together with anaglyph glasses. Recipients were thus invited to (inter)actively explore the shadow-casting play with space using scissors and glue.