Asif Khan: Radiant Lines

Overview

Fed Square is looking super pretty this month thanks to The Light in Winter program. Lighting up the night and warming the cockles of our cold Melburnian hearts is Asif Khan's work, Radiant Lines. Described as an exploration of line, rhythm, velocity and volume, the work features a large circular aluminium installation that lights up at dusk via hundreds of LED lights.

These lights are triggered by and mimic the pulsing nature of bioluminescence (to save you the Google definition, it means the production and emission of light via a living organism). As you step near the sculpture, you trigger its lighting pattern and set off the pulsations to circulate the piece, orbiting around you and passing above as you move further inside.

Asif Khan is a world-renowned designer. He leads an award-winning London based design practice and is perhaps best known for his work turning selfies into giant 3D portraits made of light for the Sochi Winter Olympics. We're pretty excited to see his works light up right here in Melbourne.