The use of blood in rituals is as ancient as rituals themselves.
The boundaries of the cave cannot be revealed.Īnother present element is blood, an essential ritual material. We don’t know what we are seeing, and that discomfort exposes the mystery that haunts us. The void challenges our ability to believe in our eyes. The void is what defines the space before there is a space. The void is the lack of surface, the inability to understand the limits of a form. The opposite of a mirror is a void, another constant form that Anish has explored over the years by subtractively sculpting in order to create space rather than making an object. This artwork resides in the gap between these two intentions. In this case, we realize that the mirrored sculpture itself has no image, but an image of the distortion that the artist proposed in addition to the moving presence of the viewer. From the ancient Greek myth of Narcissus to Lewis Carroll’s Alice Through the Looking Glass from modern architecture to the culture of selfies in social media, the mirror is an entity that reveals one’s intention. Reflections and mirrors have long been shamanistic subject matters, but they have entered into contemporary life in a very symbolic manner. A mirror that affects the way the viewers reacts to their own image. One of the most essential works for the exhibition, Double Vertigo are two long curved stainless steel mirrors that may provoke a loss of our sense of balance by suddenly changing our spatial perception and distorting everything around us. Surge is also the root of the word insurgent, a rebel, a revolutionary and a subversive. While in Spanish it is related to self-origination, appearance, arise, outbreak and emergence.
In English, it means a sudden wave that occurs in the sea, not as powerful as a tsunami, but something that raises awareness of the natural force hidden in the ocean. Despite not meaning essentially the same, they complete each other in a wider understanding of what we may want to convey. The word surge is common to English and Spanish. Kapoor works with diverse languages of material and form to investigate these conditions of both our being in the world and in our own bodies. He is interested in a change of perception that can trigger reactions towards the known. Kapoor is looking for some sort of evidence, whether in the form of matter or in the form of a phenomenon.Īlthough for many, Kapoor’s art can be seen as formalist, in truth he is genuinely connected to our social, metaphysical, psychological, spiritual and political motivations. His deep interest for ritual materials has extended throughout his career, searching for artifices which strengthen his process on the understanding of what was there before there was anything - sometimes like a scientist, other times like a shaman. Through an excavation of that which is hidden beneath the surface, his work has the power to create an experience that may be uncanny, mysterious or even spiritual. Anish Kapoor is an artist who makes visible what is concealed. There are moments in life that we need to reconnect with other dimensions of existence to understand the nature of the transformations taking place here and now.
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