The artist returns to Paris with a monumental installation that brings ancient Egyptian stone into dialogue with contemporary architecture and perception.
After ‘The Observer Effect’ in Miami, Pilar Zeta returns to Paris with ‘Mirror Gate II’, a site specific installation unveiled at Place du Louvre, positioned in front of the entrance to the Egyptian collections. Developed with Marmonil, the work evolves a sculptural language first presented at the Pyramids of Giza in 2023, continuing Zeta’s focus on portals, thresholds and the way space shapes perception.
Aligned with the glass pyramid designed by I. M. Pei, the installation sets a measured relationship between inherited material knowledge and modern architectural form. Built from Egyptian heritage stones including yellow alabaster, red Aswan granite and Breccia Fawakhir, the piece leans on each material’s symbolic charge, from interior light and permanence to geological time and transformation.
Curated by Stéphane Ruffier Meray, ‘Mirror Gate II’ does not recreate historical motifs. It translates ancestral matter into a present day spatial experience, proposing architecture as an active framework rather than a static backdrop, right in the flow of the city.
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