Mobile 1:50, 2023
Steel, paint
H75 x W105 x D270 cm, including 1:50 scale of B-2 Spirit stealth bomber

After visiting Piet Mondrian’s studio, Alexander Calder gained the idea of a kinetic sculpture. Marcel Duchamp saw Calder’s hanging sculptures and called them ‘mobiles’. Geopolitical power of modern art shifted from Europe to America.

Mobilisation of (air) space reached at a new level when disruption of radar waves became the major strategy in the air defence technology. Energy to grasp everything in the space and energy to prevent it from happening fill the sky. The expansion of space is achieved through invisibility.