Alicja Kwade reflects the distorted nature of time and reality in poetic installations – Huge
The square steel poles give way to Alicja Kwade’s monumental meditation, covered with patina-green knotted branches. Anchor Telos Story At the Pace Gallery in New York, architecture and nature converge in sculpture.
The mirrored cylinder is suspended in the structure, and the clock surface at the end is distorted. These clocks are further distorted as the audience flows, reflecting the bondage of us all through the times. Kwad suggests that time is biased towards our perceptions and reality, only partially in our control. Although the city fits human design, nature is not, and none of them have time.
Born in Poland, Kwade (formerly) is now located in Berlin, and is known for meeting long-standing beliefs through sculpture, installation, film, photography, and more. She likes very few materials, including stainless steel and stone. Mirrors also play an important role, in large-scale works, like the “double shed”, panel slots between granite and marble balls and the soft bronze appearance.
Very similar Telos Storythe sculpture uses these stylish reflective surfaces to challenge our views. Changing the image that appears according to the viewer’s position, each mirror becomes a portal, where organic forms and bronze are copied over time and again, creating a seemingly endless alternative reality. Similar phenomena also occur in “fuzzy”. The mirror panels surround the trees and stones in the desert, reflecting the environment while hiding what’s behind it.
“It’s very much about human nature, the nature of reality, how we understand our own world.” “It questions our place in the structure of this universe, and we are thrown into it.”
Telos Story It lasted until August 15th.
