(plan of the path of light) in the house of the hidden places
Optical glass and low-iron glass, steel base. 2021
200cm x 800cm x 800cm
A composition of four large-scale geometric glass sculptures (‘Glyphs’) commissioned for Forever is Now, the first ever exhibition of contemporary art presented at the Great Pyramids of Giza. The work counterbalances expressions of geometric form and measure that are aligned to celestial points and stellar horizons, creating a kind of optical clockwork that reveals itself in an ever-shifting interplay of illuminated planes that interface between the viewer and the cosmos. The geometric forms are counterpoised as glyphic expressions of im/materiality that are balanced on the terrestrial horizon but activated by the path of the sun and stars. Behind their abstract simplicity is a matrix of symbolic angles, measures and orientations, each carefully encoded with significations inspired by the optico-geometric magic of the Great Pyramids. The glass itself, whilst reflecting a future-oriented aesthetic reminiscent of technological interfaces and contemporary architectures, in fact becomes an intermediary suspended between materiality and transparency; the visible and the invisible. The work articulates a screenic interdimensionality in which temporal modes overlap and bifurcate.
