My “take it or leave it”  LED lighting interactive project, could be best translated as "immediatezza o rinuncia”©2006An overviewToday the senses are weakened and lacerated because technology and progress make all processes dramatically explicit. Senses are neutralized and lose their capacity to discriminate.We need to reflect on that…and maybe work on ourselves.I designed and set up [...]
A polisensorial interactive experienceTo be wrapped up in a film, to fall into it with the help of poly-sensorial, tactile, and olfactory stimuli, as well as those of sound and sight: this is the effect of the installation Take It or Leave It by Aliki Polydor, a designer and an artist with a complex cultural background [...]
 Chiesa di San Pietro in Archivolto, piazza Duomo, Verona S’intitola “Take it or leave it”, prendere o lasciare, l’installazione ideata et realizzata dalla designer Aliki Polydor, che e di scena fino a domani a la chiesa di San Pietro in Archivolto a Verona. Questa “azione artistica” coinvolge gli spettatori e li constringe a confrontarsi sulle [...]
Take it or leave it : the implications are many - above all, take what I offer you or leave it. The five senses exist but are lacerated. We are placed in a situation where we need to reflect on the following: feelings cost sacrifices and renunciations. Today we have intense and rapid desires. Let’s [...]
"Voglio tutto subito oppure ci rinuncio. Quello che vuoi lo vuoi adesso? Allora lascia perdere, perché adesso non ce l'ho." Coccole da reality show. Obbligate, spiate, consapevolmente trasmesse e registrate. Baciare o combaciare? Coccole imposte, comandate o telecomandate. Coccole richieste con ricatti sottili. Ne fai a me e io ne faccio a te. Baciare, sì, [...]
The light installation in the castle of Rivoli Forte Wohlgemuth “Zafferano o spezie…”, together with the LED light sculpture “ZAFF”, hymns those emotions tied to the senses of  vision, taste and smell. Spices give their contribution to the taste of elements and also to the taste of life, by making life more intense with a [...]
The installation “Zafferano o spezie…“ at the castello di Rivoli - Forte Wohlgemuth with 3 technologically innovative SSL light sculptures of which “zaff”, being the most important one, offers a distinct message : that of enhancing emotions linked to the pleasure of the senses, whether gustatory or olfactory. To Aliki, spices contribute to the flavor [...]
Aliki Polydor's polisensorial lighting installation is, then, to be seen in the context of other contemporary art inquiries even though it is based on specific elements of her own sensitivity and personal style: adding LED-lighting she has creates an all-embracing quality.She does so with the lightest touch and in a clear and allusive manner. This [...]
Aliki's works in resin are extremely luminous with their orange conveying energy and fragrance, seducing the senses. In this LED lighting installation of this Iranian-born designer and artist, we find all the fascination, light, and magic of the East. It is not by chance that her installation reveals through LED lighting a meeting of colour, spice; [...]
