Dominic Kiessling Instal·lació

Assuming that the simplest form can contain infinite energy, the installation by Dominic Kiessling that will inhabit the Mirror Hall of the Gran Teatre del Liceu is an unexpected presence: a large inflatable star around the Christmas season of this year. Far from anecdote or decorative gesture, the piece unfolds a subtle reflection on space, perception, and art's capacity to transform collective experience through essential forms.The star, a universal archetype loaded with meanings—orientation, desire, transcendence, celebration—is presented here stripped of symbolic solemnity in order to activate an open and sensory reading. Its monumental scale and inflatable nature introduce a fertile tension between lightness and monumentality, between the ephemeral and the persistence of visual memory. Kiessling works with volume and air as his main materials and turns the space into a living organism that breathes and expands before the viewer's gaze.The installation engages directly with the architecture of the Mirror Hall, a historic space marked by reflection, symmetry, and representation. In this context, the star acts as a strange and, at the same time, surprisingly harmonious body, which alters the usual perception of the place and invites a new way of inhabiting it. The reflections multiply the form, fragment it, and expand it until it becomes a constellation of presences that dissolve the boundaries between object and environment.Kiessling's work, which transports us to childhood, sets in motion a playful dimension that does not renounce complexity. The inflatable character of the piece activates an immediate relationship with the viewer and appeals to a bodily and emotional memory linked to play, celebration, and surprise. This apparent lightness becomes, however, a critical tool: art as a space of displacement, capable of disabling expectations and opening cracks of perception in strongly codified contexts.Thus, Dominic Kiessling's star becomes a poetic gesture that suspends time and transforms the route into experience. Between air and light, between reflection and volume, the installation invites us to recover an attentive and open gaze and reminds us that, sometimes, it is in formal simplicity that art finds its deepest capacity to move and to activate shared imagination.Celebrated in the Mirror Hall