alicja kwade
 
Parallelwelt 1 - 2008

eight Kaiser-Idell lamps, 8 mirror
98 x 392 x 56 cm / 38 1/2 x 154 1/4 x 22 in

Installation shot "Von Explosionen zu Ikonen", Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, 2008

Photo: Roman März

The installation "Parallelwelt 1" comprises mirrors and lamps. Light shines from the semi-circular heads of black lamps; together the two lamps form a black sphere, in whose interior the light remains concealed. The reflected mirror image completes the sphere or ball, yet this completeness is hidden from the viewer, remaining invisible in the parallel world. The perfection of the endless is not accessible to us, yet resides merely in our imagination.