Widow

This environmental installation embodies many of the characteristics of Anish Kapoor's work. As in other pieces, realised with mirror-finish materials, in Widow the artist manipulates and lends form to the void, involving the spectator in a visual and spatial experience of great impact. The eye is attracted by the complex geometry of the black PVC envelope, taut and anchored to the wall like an enormous living organism, and repelled by its impenetrability. It seems that the material possesses an internal strength that models it as it expands: the resulting object is part of the space, an extension of it. Infinite points of view are thus generated and redraw the spatiality in which the work is inserted, multiplying the relationships between work and spectator.