The Unseen
Commissioned and acquired by Louvre Abu Dhabi.
On view as a two-year installation in the museum’s permanent collection.
Nylon threads on steel, LED lights and projection mapping.
Music and composition by FaceSoul.
The Unseen draws a quiet line between cosmic phenomena and inner contemplation. Black holes — bodies whose gravitational pull bends space, time and even light — become here a metaphor for meditation, for the inward turn through which a person bends the fabric of their own consciousness.
In a darkened space, sound and light unfold in slow cycles. Frequencies ebb and flow; an indecipherable resonance reiterates a light that is at once present and absent. As black holes draw light into a seemingly infinite void, the work invites a parallel descent — into what cannot be seen, named, or fully known.
There is no absolute answer here. The Unseen sits at the threshold between the visible and the unrevealed, and what it reveals depends on the viewer: an internal odyssey toward the realms that lie beyond immediate perception.