Empty Reflections

a shimmering tower that evokes both a domestic object and a monumental structure. The form loosely follows the floorplan of the Burj Khalifa—one of the world’s most ambitious architectural icons—yet here, it serves no commercial or residential function. Instead, it takes the shape of an oversized étagère: a familiar household item used to present and store goods. But in this case, the trays are completely empty.

Positioned in a vacant storefront window, the structure rests on a slowly rotating circular pedestal. This gentle, continuous motion invites passersby to look again—to wait for something to appear on the other side. Yet every side is the same: glimmering, tidy, and void. The rotation creates a subtle tension between expectation and stillness, visibility and meaning.

The installation reflects on cycles of consumption, the aesthetics of emptiness, and the symbolic weight of display in urban life. It draws a quiet parallel between the domestic and the monumental, between what we present and what is truly there. The reused trays carry the marks of past lives, hinting at absent goods, vanished routines, and a collective memory of use.

Placed within the context of Art au Centre—where art temporarily occupies spaces of commercial abandonment— Empty Reflections mirrors the vacant display window while transforming it. It offers a speculative object that feels both familiar and strange, ornamental and obsolete. A monument to nothing, it asks what remains when everything has been put away.