Reverse Perspective

LUCA School of Arts – mentored by Volkmar Mühleis and Wim Goes

Location: hoet.gallery

This installation challenges traditional Western understandings of space by engaging with the concept of reverse perspective, where depth and focus are reimagined and the viewer is no longer a passive observer but a participant. Rather than relying on linear perspective and vanishing points, this work uses shadow, projection, and spatial play to evoke a sense of transcendence and immersion.

Visitors are invited to step into the installation, where their own shadows merge with a projected landscape, transforming them into part of the image. 

The projection becomes a poetic “in-between space”: a portal to memory, nature, and the spiritual. It invites stillness, reflection, and connection, inspired by the Byzantine icon traditions studied by the art historian Clemena Antonova.

Strings extend from the imagery into the physical space, disrupting the boundary between reality and representation. As shadows shift and perspectives dissolve, the viewer’s body becomes entangled in a dialogue between presence and absence, image and world.

Referencing both historical iconography and contemporary spatial theory, this installation offers an open, sacred environment—one not to be interpreted, but to be experienced.