Wormhole I & II is a sculptural painting installation that captures the emotional and temporal paradox of inhabiting two parallel lives. Mirrored and flipped versions of nearly identical paintings are suspended back-to-back, two figures seated above circular voids, their coordinates pointing to distant geographies.
Front View
Wormhole I & II + Möbius Strip, 2025 | oil on canvas, wire and fabric, 100 x 75 cm [painting with frame]
Between these mirrored selves lies the disorienting experience of movement across timelines. You travel, not just in space, but in memory, identity and time. What feels like return becomes something stranger: people have aged, things have changed, and yet you, too, change as you arrive. Life on one side seems to pause when you’re immersed in the other, but time flows on both ends, unevenly. These lives do not interact, what unfolds in one has no consequence in the other. They coexist like quantum states in superposition: both real, both active, yet only one can be perceived at a time.
Back View
Wormhole I & II + Möbius Strip, 2025 | oil on canvas, wire and fabric, 100 x 75 cm [painting with frame]
Surrounding the paintings is a suspended Möbius strip, a one-sided surface looping endlessly into itself. It functions as a physical metaphor for time’s nonlinearity. Inspired by the grandfather paradox and films like Donnie Darko, the Möbius strip collapses beginnings and endings, making past and future indistinguishable. In its twist lies the impossibility of linear progress, the self returns to familiar places as someone changed, or even someone else.
Together, the installation becomes a portal, a wormhole, not just through space, but through perception. You are invited to orbit the work, to face one image while the other remains behind you, unseen but present. As in the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, both realities continue to unfold, whether observed or not. You are never truly in one life, you are in the interference pattern between them.