Y (2003) is the work that lends its title to the exhibition and marks its entrance. A passageway with one entrance and two exits, the sculpture in the shape of a Y posits the necessity for the visitor to make a choice between two options. The visitor walks down a catwalk surrounded by circles of lights, whose intermittent lighting creates the sensation of clockwise movement. As the walkway splits, the movement of the lights is different on each side. This luminous spiral that attracts or repulses forces visitors to make a choice, to follow the movement of the rings, or to oppose it. The artwork anticipates the doubling of the exhibition and how it may be experienced; right from the beginning, it produces a sense of disorientation that is further emphasized by the presence of mirrors at the end.

Y, 2003. 960 25-watt incandescent light bulbs, DMX lighting control system, aluminum, illuminated signs at both exits, cables, wood, steel, mirrors. Collection of Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna. Photo credit: Attilio Maranzano