Fotos: Wavelength, cortesía de Spy

The installation Divided is part of SpY's research into the relationship between body, space, and perception. Through large-scale interventions in the urban fabric, the Spanish artist explores how monumentality and light can transform the viewer's experience and redefine public space.

The work takes the form of a large, luminous, intensely red sphere, split into two identical halves separated from each other. Each hemisphere is contained within a metal structure built from industrial scaffolding, similar to those commonly used in construction. This framework has a structural function but also becomes a key element of the installation's visual and conceptual language, establishing a dialogue between cubic and spherical geometries, between the provisional, the industrial, and the sculptural.

Red light, a recurring element in SpY's recent work, acts as a material in itself, like any other. It not only envelops the forms but also permeates the environment and alters its atmosphere. The installation is fully activated through public participation. Visitors walk between both halves of the sphere, passing through a corridor of light where the fracture is. Proximity to the curved surfaces, the chromatic intensity, and the radiation of light together provide an immersive experience that blurs the usual references of scale, distance, and orientation.

Along with Earth and Confronted, Divided is part of the Earth series, a set of installations that reflect on fragmentation, conflict, and coexistence. Presented in cities like Madrid, Athens, Riyadh, and Ghent, it offers a symbolic reading of the contemporary world and its latent tensions.