Tanja Rochelmeyer: Glance

Glance is the title of an artistic installation created in an approximately 100-metre pedestrian tunnel at Flöha station by the artist Tanja Rochelmeyer, who was born in Essen in 1975 and now lives in Berlin. The perfect surfaces of the installation, composed of 171 rectangular panels, show elements such as frames, stylised brickwork, rectangles, letters that form the town name Flöha, and repeat a spectrum concentrated on a few colours.

Rochelmeyer’s work is not imagery as such; nor does it convey a specific message. It recalls fleeting glimpses of landscapes, architecture, posters and people as seen from a passing train. The colours and shapes combine with the architecture and the movement and intent of the passers-by in the tunnel, so that these images change direction, speed, lighting and even mood depending on where you are; the impressions will stay with you throughout the day.

In the context of its location, Glance can also be seen as evoking the streams of passing workers from the nearby cotton mill; they created and produced fabrics in Flöha between 1809 and 1994. Their footsteps and thoughts are inscribed on Flöha railway station like an etch-a-sketch.

The station, where three train lines converge, also acts as a hub for the communities and stopping points on the “Purple Path”– our art & sculpture trail in the region around the Capital of Culture Chemnitz  – once again bringing new insights to the area. Glance’s concrete-abstract imagery also links the history, landscape, present and future of the area between Annaberg-Buchholz and Zwickau .