Appias & Lang are a duo of artists creating temporary site-specific art. Their works are abstract visual stories, and their main tools are carbon paper, light, cameras, and field recordings. The work takes place in several stages, including the creation of a graphic prototype (carbon monotype), light installations using 3D mapping (projection mapping), and subsequent documentation with cameras.

For the installation stage, artists choose remote areas, abandoned buildings and other places and objects lost in time. Using the light and art of new media, artists repeat the magic ritual of prehistoric artists, placing their images in places hidden from the viewer, thereby reviving the walls of rooms that have lost their life. However, the artists do not leave any traces after themselves; they take away evidence of their presence in these places in the form of installation documentation. They work with what is available to them, without changing anything, and keep the room in its original form.

When creating an installation, artists record the process with photo and video cameras. This documentation becomes the final work presented later to the viewer. They do not take the viewer to fragile, hard-to-reach points, but rather transfer these unique, lively places to galleries and other spaces intended for the public.

 Appias & Lang

FIRST TESTS Location: Esna, Estonia / July 2021

Our first experiments with the projector were done in July 2021 in Esna, Estonia. The idea of SOUP was just beginning and we did not know where it would bring us. We decided to continue our journey. After the first few images we had to leave to separate countries, and we began making plans to meet again in a few months.

EXPEDITION NO. 1

Location: New Jersey + Pennsylvania, USA / November 2021

First expedition took place in the United States, in abandoned places of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The results of this month-long expedition were placed in a few projects: A romantic fairytale diary Optical Artefacts, a research-based project Jersey Devil, and many individual Artworks.