Marauder
Carla Arocha, 2007
Mirrored Plexiglas and stainless steel · Approx. 500 × 150 × 900 cm
The Met Hotel Art Collection, Thessaloniki
Description:
Marauder is an imposing, cylindrical sculpture comprised of interlocking mirrored plexiglas panels and sleek stainless steel supports. Suspended from the ceiling, the work hovers above the floor—fragmenting and reflecting the room in a mesmerizing lattice of light and geometry. The vertical strips trace a patterned veil that alternately reveals and conceals, producing shifting perceptions as one moves around it.
Drawing from Carla Arocha’s studies in constructivism, suprematism, Op Art, and modernist abstraction, Marauder visualizes how pattern and reflection can destabilize architectural space The Met Hotel. It reads as both an object and an environment: the viewer becomes part of the work, caught in the mirror’s fragmented reflections and floating spatial illusions.
Interpretive Highlights
Spatial dialogue: The mirrored cylinders reflect and refract their surroundings, making viewers aware of space as something mutable—not static.
Pattern as prism: Drawing from modernist traditions, the geometric structure activates visual perception, turning a lobby into a kinetic light sculpture.
Ephemeral architecture: Lightness and transparency challenge traditional notions of solidity—Marauder is architecture you can see through, yet it frames space like an ethereal boundary.