Upside Down

The installation invites viewers into a self-sustaining ecosystem where instinct, diversity, and imagination converge. Each material speaks its own language, while light moves across the surfaces, revealing textures and reflections that shift with every step. A continuous, evolving soundscape runs through the work, reminiscent of a heartbeat. Its sounds echo the rhythms of nature in motion: the sway of wind, the pulse of growth, the slow transformation of living systems. 

The work also explores the tension between craftsmanship and technology through a striking spatial inversion. Joana Vasconcelos’s suspended draperies and dense, branching forms descend like organic roots, while Arne Quinze’s lighter structure appears to levitate below, unfolding in an undulating rhythm. Upside Down becomes a meditation on creation itself: nature as the ultimate artist, and humanity as participant rather than controller. 

Created in collaboration with Atelier Vierkant, Atelier Berengo and Creutz and Partners.


The Upside Down creates a moment of suspension within the exhibition. Placed in the chapel, it shifts the visitor’s perception of space, gravity, and meaning. What interests me is how the work transforms the site into a place of inversion, where the familiar becomes unstable and the dreamlike begins to take physical form.
Selcan Atilgan
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Artwork Details
PRODUCTION DATE
2026
MATERIALS
Hand-sculpted aluminium, ceramics, murano glass, bronze, white aluminium, painted fibreglass,iron, handmade woollen crochet, fabrics, ornaments, LED, polystyrene, polyester, PSU, steel cables
DIMENSIONS
500 x 400 x 400 cm
NOTES
Artwork produced in collaboration with Arne Quinze
Artwork exhibited at
The Absurd and the DreamlikeThe Absurd and the Dreamlike
19/06/2026>31/10/2026The Absurd and the Dreamlike
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