MONOLITH
2024
This installation explores how our perception of time shifts depending on our surroundings. Stepping into an isolated space, where light seems to dissolve scale, can distort our sense of time—making moments feel stretched or compressed.
The work takes inspiration from 2001: A Space Odyssey, where a dark monolith symbolizes the beginning of knowledge and, with it, the awareness of time. Instead of darkness, this piece uses light—diffused through sanded plexiglass and sharpened at its polished edges—to create a presence that feels both solid and intangible.
Made from a 100x60x10 cm plexiglass block, the sculpture was carefully drilled from below to insert a diode, a process that required a custom-built Forstner drill developed with artist Kasper Kjeldgaard. Mounted in welded iron brackets, the piece was installed in the old cellars of Aarhus Amtssygehus, where its refined materials contrasted with the surrounding decay of crumbling walls and fallen leaves.
A musical soundscape by composer Sophia Sagaradze accompanied the work, layering fast, textured sounds with slow, deep tones. Visitors followed the sound through the basement corridors, gradually arriving at the illuminated sculpture—an encounter meant to pause time, if only for a moment.