Tangle
2005 – Installation
Glass, copper, mirrors, paint, magnifying lenses, and coated cardboard
Variable dimensions (modular elements: 27.5 × 21.3 × 14 cm)
Tangle is an installation composed of modular elements placed side by side, resembling small boxes with one transparent face dominated by a magnifying lens. Each module contains a material tangle which, when viewed through the lens, distorts and transforms depending on the observer’s angle and movement—making the work visually unstable and perceptually dynamic.
Though seemingly isolated, the individual units—spaced just a few centimeters apart—come together in the viewer’s gaze to form a single visual knot: a tangle, where order and chaos coexist. Within the lenses, in unexpected places, branching details and stylized silhouettes of human figures etched onto metal leaves emerge, evoking an ambiguous, hybrid nature suspended between the organic and the artificial.
The conceptual core of the work lies in the tension between vision and touch: Tangle does not offer kaleidoscopic views but instead constructs a perceptual oxymoron—“tangible virtual realities”—in which matter becomes illusion, and illusion feels concrete. The installation is activated by the movement of the viewer, generating continuous perceptual mutations, amplifications, and disappearances.
Reinforcing this fluid dimension is an additional feature: each module contains an inner mirror at its base, reflecting the surrounding environment. As a result, the dominant color of the work is never fixed but shifts according to its context, absorbing and reflecting fragments of the space it inhabits. Tangle thus takes on ever-changing hues, becoming a chameleonic organism that literally—and symbolically—reflects the world around it.
