Tessellation — The Sixth Sense, Bengaluru

Tessellation treats a surviving fragment of the Alembic Glass Factory — a circular concrete silo, 24 metres across — as both material object and perceptual instrument. Each night of The Sixth Sense, India’s multidisciplinary immersive exhibition, the silo’s opacity is interrupted, reorganised and provisionally undone by light.

The piece operates across two registers. Architecturally, millimetre-accurate projection decomposes the façade into lattice, mass and aperture and re-reads it as a transparent vessel. Atmospherically, layered holographic fog and the heavy Bangalore night air extend the image off the surface and into the space around it, so the work is encountered as a volume the audience moves around and through — no headsets, no glasses, no LED.

Inside the rendered vessel a synthetic ecology unfolds in real time: crystalline forms, root systems, slow interior weather, generated live and registered to the silo’s geometry across a loop of roughly nineteen minutes, dusk to midnight. The work is metered for stillness — long durations, no drop, no crescendo for a phone. The documentation of the installation has passed ten million views on Instagram.

Credits

• Concept, direction & volumetric projection: Stefan Ihmig / RE:SORB