Hatch | Amsterdam Light Festival | 2013

by Liat Segal & Hagar Elazari


The Hatch is a peephole to endless inner depths. It's a kinetic light sculpture half buried in the ground. Standing afar, it looks like a transparent cube covering illuminated sticks resembling a ladder. When looking from above, one sees an endless tunnel to the bottom of the earth.
The Hatch is manipulating space, building an infinite chamber through light.

The work was commissioned by the Amsterdam Light Festival, December 2013 and by the Jerusalem Light Festival, June 2014.



The sculpture is placed between a mirror and a half transparent mirror, behind which the viewer stands, seeing endless reflections.