Fragmented Realities, 2025 | Installation, mirrors, 70 x 100 x 50cm
In Fragmented Realities, Mara Espinosa Erda constructs a perceptual environment where geometry, reflection, and physical presence converge. The installation consists of six mirrors: three isosceles triangular panels arranged at 90° angles within a corner, and three additional mirrored panels forming a cube positioned at their intersection.
Fragmented Realities, 2025 | Installation view ‘Cornerstones‘, Roma
What appears at first to be a symmetrical, minimal installation quickly reveals a more complex experience. As viewers move in front of the work, their reflections multiply and shift. The mirrored cube creates overlapping images of the self sometimes mirrored, sometimes inverted, sometimes layered. These are not angles we are used to seeing ourselves from. It is like encountering parallel versions of your own body and presence recognizable, yet subtly altered.
Fragmented Realities, 2025 | Installation, mirrors, 70 x 100 x 50cm
The mirrored geometry creates the illusion of other realities coexisting at once suggesting that we inhabit multiple dimensions of experience, many of which remain unseen. The mirror surfaces offer brief glimpses into these alternate selves: perspectives that feel close to our own, but just out of reach, like looking into another version of reality.
Fragmented Realities, 2025 | Installation view ‘Cornerstones‘, Roma
This encounter invites reflection not only on how we are seen, but on how we exist. The installation suggests that identity is not singular or fixed, but fractured and fluidstretching across different layers of time, memory, and perception.
Importantly, the piece resists being captured in images. Its full effect depends on the presence of the viewer. It’s only through movement, through being physically there, that the shifting reflections come alive creating a moment where perception opens, and the self is revealed as a constellation of possibilities.