City Center / Nomadic Monads is made up of five columns, approximately ten feet high, based on various geometric forms (circle, triangle, square, pentagon, hexagon), each made of two-way mirror glass. Installed temporarily in public or semi-public space in the UAE, these objects allude equally to the glass curtain walls of corporate skyscrapers and to the bodies of passers-by. Contextualizing itself via form and materials, the ensemble will bring together what is otherwise incompatible: high rise architecture and our physical selves, the postcard view of the skyline and our eye-level encounter with one another, progress seen as technological modernity and a Euclidean geometric progression. The idea of the monad in the work’s title, meanwhile, builds on the many attempts since Pythagoras to make this concept fruitful for theoretical and cultural reflection.
