2012
Installation view, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Mirror mosaics, foam, rotary motor, light projectors
Mechanisms of Disorientation: Towards a Fragmented Understanding was installed in the Medieval and Renaissance Gallery of the Victoria and Albert Museum, a setting filled with statues and architectural fragments displaced from their original contexts. In the evenings, with the gallery lights turned off, only fragments of the surrounding objects and space became visible—scattered reflections from a rotating half-disco ball casting intermittent, fractured light across the room.
This interplay of light and shadow heightened the installation’s critique of the museum’s role in framing and fragmenting cultural history. By illuminating portions of statues and architectural elements in fleeting, fractured glimpses, the work emphasized the partial and decontextualized way history is often presented within institutional spaces. Mechanisms of Disorientation interrogates the museum as a site of mediation, where cultural heritage is reframed, reinterpreted, and inevitably distorted—challenging viewers to reconsider the coherence and authority of historical narratives.
Photo: Christa Holka
Detail
2012
Mirror mosaics, foam, rotary motor, light projectors
Installation view, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Installation view, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Installation view, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Installation view, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Installation view, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Installation view, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Installation view, Victoria and Albert Museum, London