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Similar to a floating drawing in space, the thin carbon connecting rods are carried by black balloons filled with helium. Spheres, which are lighter than air, lift interconnected thin rods upwards, enabling them to float horizontally. The installation is reminiscent of Alexander Calder's light mobiles, but in this arrangement, it is turned upside down and thus freed from its gravity. A balancing act against gravity becomes floating equilibrium.

Only a small weight prevents the levitating installation from flying away. Even the slightest flow of air sets the installation in motion. The lines and spheres glide smoothly and harmoniously around each other, whereby it is left to chance whether random movements or moments of geometric harmony are to be seen.

Beyond the astonishment at the strength in balance, vulnerability and lightness which the installation reveals about physical laws, ‘shared Wings’ also generates associations of delicacy as an essential basis of the fragile interdependencies of all living beings.

Carbon Rods, Latex Balloons, Helium, String, Swivel Joint, Weights, Highfloat Gel, Tape. Storage and transport is very easy, as the balloons are filled with helium at the exhibition site, the individual packed parts take up very little space. The assembly is very simple, the helium balloons, filled with Highloat gel, float for approximately three weeks, depending on the climatic conditions. Replacing the balloons is not complicated either.

Marie Lienhard explores the human will to overcome physical laws governing body and mind through allegories of flight, levitation or fall. She addresses our perceptual senses by creating surprising aesthetic experiences which invite us to become aware of our presumed limits, and to go beyond them. She uses all kinds of digital media such as virtual reality and video, and also installation art, performance and drawing.