With or Without Edge

The freestanding acrylic glass sculpture consists of six radially and fan-shaped panels, supported at the base by stainless steel strips and connected at a central point. The panels vary in width and depth and are partially finished with iridescent colored foil. Each panel is perforated, featuring a unique, geometrically shaped, window-like cutout, reminiscent of James Turrell's iconic Skyspace works from the 1970s. The overall structure resembles a revolving door, which we activate step by step. Depending on our position, viewing direction, and focus, the six "windows" frame our views, glimpses, and perspectives. As we walk around the sculpture, the viewpoints and perspectives shift. The overlapping cutouts constantly create new refractions, juxtapositions, and distortions of the field of vision, and thus of spatial perception. Only through our looking and moving forward are the multiple scenes set in motion, image by image, or rather, image-within-an-image. The perceived environment – museum foyer, inner garden, outer park – itself becomes part of the living artwork: framed, filtered, mirrored. Different realities emerge as both limited and boundless spaces. Viewers become aware of the moment of their movement, controlling the pace and intensity of their observation, and sometimes encountering themselves in the form of their own reflection.

The transparent, iridescent nature of the panels creates a prismatic spectrum that, radiating from a central point, crystallizes and focuses at the edges of the panels and their "window frames," radiating in various directions. No two walks around the sculpture are the same: external factors such as time of day, season, and weather conditions redefine each moment of light and shadow, thus creating new spectral effects of reflection and deflection. Ultimately, however, we decide our own mode of viewing, as the work's title suggests: With or Without Edge. In the artist's own words: "The title With or Without Edge implies an ambiguity that productively activates the viewer's autonomy in terms of how they perceive the work."