Sudden Rupture — The Mirror Falls 

Schemerlicht Festival, The Netherlands, 2025 


Sudden Rupture — The Mirror Falls is an immersive kinetic installation that meditates on the fragile threshold between tension and transformation. At its centre, a polished mirrored sphere hovers above a shallow reflecting pool. Suspended in air, it captures the surrounding architecture, poised between composure and imminent collapse. Then, without signal, it falls. Water breaks. Ripples surge. Mist rises. Light fractures and scatters across the space. And stillness returns—transformed, quietly charged with memory.

Each fall is unique: a suspended rupture in which the unconscious stirs and those present are confronted with impermanence. The irregular rhythm of falling and stillness renders time elastic, moments and memory collapsing into one another. Drawing on Jungian ideas of the shadow self, the sphere becomes a mirror of what lies beneath the surface, inviting confrontation with uncertainty, fragility and sudden change. This ritual of tension and release becomes a meditation on the exquisite beauty of abrupt transformation and the fleeting nature of existence.

Kite places the viewer at the heart of his installations. Working at an architectural scale, he orchestrates light, sound, moving image, sculpture and performance to compose temporal spaces that disrupt the habitual and open up new modes of attention. The artwork embodies this approach: a sculptural intervention in which water, sound, light and architecture act together, transforming the theatre into a participant in the experience.

A mirror falls. A rhythm falters. A familiar cadence is broken. What happens when time itself stumbles? The installation marks such a threshold: a point where the everyday loses its grip and another experience of time reveals itself. Not an end, but a passage—an invitation to step away from linear progression into cyclical time, where slowness, attention and receptivity find space to unfold.