Furthering his exploration of choice as a basic component of a visitor’s experience of his exhibition, Carsten Höller offers two separate paths, which perhaps reflect the two different views offered by the two large bay windows at either end of the exhibition space. On each path, the visitor will encounter a set of works that generates distinct sensations and hence, different experiences. As always, the visitor is invited to activate the work by engaging with it, so as to generate an experience that is unique each time.

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.