The sculpture IKAT I-III by the Danish artist and textile designer Astrid Krogh form a trilogy of light tapestries made of paper yarn and optic fibers. The tapestries allude to the Ikat weaving technique, which is characterized by detailed coloring and immense precision, making it possible to create smooth transitions between the patterns. With IKAT I-III Astrid Krogh interprets the ikat tradition by using light as an imaginary dye creating its own patterns and shapes. The optic fibres are connected to light monitors infusing coloured light directly into the fibres by means of a little colour wheel designed by the artist. The changing flow of subtle colors as well as the slow and meditative pace constantly stimulates the beholder, questioning the impact of colored light on our perception.

Astrid Krogh embraces traditional craft techniques while using high tech materials. She hand weaves lengths of optic strands on a loom to make iridescent tapestries that illuminate into a rainbow of brilliant colors. In this way, Astrid succeeds in giving light a rare soft and tactile quality, proposing a highly original and poetic vocabulary in the field of light installations, based on sensual color experience and contemplative perception.

Astrid Krogh is widely considered as one of the most pioneering artists in the field of optic fiber installations, starting by the end of the 1990s with monumental light weavings for important museum exhibitions and site-specific commissions such as the Maersk building and the Danish Parliament in Copenhagen, the 21 C Museum International Contemporary Art Foundation in Cincinnati and the Longchamp Flagship in Paris. In 2006, 2009 and 2011 she received the Danish Art Foundation Prize. She won the Thorvald Bindesboell Medal in 2008 and received the Inga & Ejvind Kold Christensen Prize in 2013. In 2015, she was awarded with the Annual Honorary Grant of the National Bank of Denmark.