2021

“… we need the most powerful telescope, that of polished utopian consciousness, in order to penetrate precisely the nearest nearness.”
Ernst Bloch

Torricelli’s trumpet is a paradoxical geometric figure that can be filled with a finite amount of matter but has a surface that stretches to infinity. Looking through the tube is like looking through a telescope with which we can simultaneously see in and out.

acrylic in wall, pencil on graph paper, dimensions variable

 More about the project “The Possible Institution” here

 © Swimming Pool and the artists. Photo: Yana Lozeva.