Insight
Aalto University, School of Art, Design and Architecture, Väre, Espoo
2018

Three 12 m long vertical mirror prisms rotate slowly in a void inside a new university building, above a hands-on working area of fashion design students.

Except for the sculptural staircase, the interior surrounding the void is very homogeneous on all sides. Even if the reflections in the rotating mirrors alter all the time, the changes are rather subtle, and from certain angles the work seems to momentarily disappear in its background. This makes the overall appearance of the large-scale work rather immaterial and ethereal.

The conceptual idea of the work is to turn the attention from the work itself to the people and activities surrounding it, and thus support unity of the multicultural academic and artistic community.