Steel with patina
Dimensions variable
Previously installed in the foreground at Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY. Courtesy the artist and Commonwealth and Council. Co-commissioned by Storm King Art Center, EMPAC–Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, and the Vera List Center for Arts and Politics at The New School. The sculpture was created in part during the artist’s residency at Atelier Calder, Saché, France.
Photo by Elisabet Gallego
About
Conceived as a hyperobject, or an installation ideally visible from a nonhuman vantage point, Cosmic Mirror (The Sky over Saratoga) (2022, reconfigured 2024) scatters over the landscape to mirror a constellation known as Orion in the West, but has been known as different names in other spaces and temporalities. Cortez considers the possibility of engaging with this constellation as a time machine, not only because its light comes from the past and engages in conversation with its future, but also because we can tilt our head just so and be in a different location or temporality where this same constellation is also visible.
Location
This artwork is on display in the Succulent Garden.
