Installation, mixed media, steel, concrete, gold, plastic, 3,5 x 6 x 8 m

In a darkened room, a fractured hexagonal golden mirror stands — half-assembled, half-decayed. Its geometry recalls the design of a space telescope, yet here it appears displaced, unearthed from another time. From the rear, the structure reveals its anatomy: corroded steel, exposed rebar, concrete. Around it, translucent membranes spread across the floor like traces of an experiment long concluded.

The object is presented as a specimen — isolated behind a delicate boundary, illuminated by the cold light of institutional display. It no longer functions; it is exhibited. Between science and archaeology, between machine and monument, it occupies the ambiguous space of the museum relic.

When seen from the front, the surface turns radiant — gold leaf reflecting artificial lights. The moment evokes a quiet, almost sacred awe: an encounter with the relics of a new faith built on observation and reason.

What was once a device for seeing outward now appears to gaze at nothing — an artefact of a civilisation that sought the answers to the universe, but found only questions.

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Exhibited at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague – Graduation Festival, July 2018.