Back Home
Ephemeral installation for a mundane religious experience.
“Back Home” is the materialization of one personal experience. In a refurbishment project, we worked on, most of the workers were Muslims and during the whole process of the construction, all the walls were signed in different particular ways with the only purpose to mark the direction to Mecca. We saw how this simple act of strong belief was creating repeatedly a new complex space charged with strong ideological assets, where the physical expression is ephemeral, but the metaphysical one is timeless. We conceived this site specific installation as an allegory of the art of the Islamic time-space. In the simple interaction between the visitor and a dynamic grid of pivoting mirror panels appear forces that excite the space and in the beauty of the repetition and the crystalline symmetry create the experience of the dematerialized omnipresent religion and the spiritual contemplation.
