Inside the monumental shell of a former turbine factory in Hungary, Spanish artist SpY unveils two ambitious works, Matriz and Cycles, projects that extend his ongoing exploration of geometry, perception, and the transformation of public space.
In Matriz, a precise three-dimensional grid of black rectangles hovers in suspension, defying gravity as it organizes emptiness with silent order. Floating corridors and columns materialize from nothing, inviting visitors to walk through the void itself.
These forms are not walls, yet they define; they do not touch the ground, yet they orient. SpY has long been known for turning the overlooked elements of daily life into catalysts for reflection, and here he elevates absence into structure, creating a disorienting but poetic architecture of suspension.
Cycles, presented alongside Matriz, shifts the focus from space to time.
A kinetic sculpture composed of nine concentric rings stacked in fragile balance, the work rotates in perpetual motion. Driven by a mechanism at its base, the rings unfold an endless choreography of intersecting patterns.
Figures appear stable, then dissolve into ambiguity, producing illusions that destabilize perception. In Cycles, movement itself becomes material: time and instability are sculpted into form, and the audience is drawn into a hypnotic dialogue between order and collapse.
Together, the two works articulate the dual poles of SpY’s practice, order and dislocation, rigor and play, emptiness and saturation. Emerging from Madrid’s pioneering graffiti scene in the 1980s, SpY has become a leading voice in contemporary urban intervention, creating works that range from subtle interventions in the streets to monumental installations on civic architecture. His language is precise yet open, playful yet critical, often questioning systems of control while offering moments of poetry and surprise in the everyday landscape.
By staging Matriz and Cycles within the raw industrial vastness of the INOTA Festival, SpY demonstrates once again his ability to charge environments with new meaning. The turbine hall becomes a stage for two elemental experiences: the ordering of space through suspension, and the unfolding of time through motion. Visitors do not simply view these works, they traverse them, inhabit them, and are altered by them.
Presented and commissioned by INOTA Festival, these projects reaffirm SpY’s position as one of the most vital voices in contemporary public art, an artist who turns geometry, void, and time into materials for human experience.
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