((n)arcissus is a site-specific installation created for NODE10 at the Frankfurter Kunstverein. Suspended within the museum’s central stair, the piece spans nine meters in height and is held in tension between two metal rings—one anchored at the top of the stairwell and the other attached to the lobby ceiling. Occupying the full vertical volume of the space, the installation connects three floors through a continuous hanging surface.

A narrow, reflective void opens at the center of the stairwell, drawing the eye upward while concealing its full extent. What initially appears as a contained object gradually reveals itself as a vertical environment, unfolding differently as visitors move through the building.

The form is generated by more than one thousand custom-shaped panels organized between the two rings. Three layers of Mylar compose the skin, each contributing to the piece’s optical and spatial behavior. Panel geometry shifts from square to X-shaped in response to changes in curvature and tension, while two layers transition in opposite directions to produce a subtle, graduated color field along the exterior.

From the lobby, the installation reads as a compressed, inward-facing corridor. Highly reflective interior surfaces multiply distorted reflections, creating a dense and disorienting visual field that emphasizes proximity and self-awareness. Only through movement—entering the piece or ascending the stair—does its full scale become legible.

As visitors move upward, the experience shifts. The exterior surface becomes translucent, light filters through the layered skin, and the form reads as a softly graded volume stretched through space. The installation transitions from confrontational to connective, visually stitching together the building’s multiple levels.

Through reflection, translucency, and vertical continuity, (n)arcissus transforms circulation into experience—revealing itself through movement and offering radically different readings from within and without.