NEGUA is an interdisciplinary spatial installation combining sculpture, photography, video mapping and algorithmic image composition.

As visitors enter the installation, images of their eyes are captured and transferred into a digital system in real time. A custom algorithm continuously reorganizes these images into a dynamic visual field.

The projections appear on a large-scale, honeycomb-like structure composed of white spheres connected through a three-dimensional textile network. The installation creates a spatial image system in which individual fragments merge into a collective composition.

Within the multitude of projected gazes, one suddenly encounters one’s own. The gaze turns back onto the observer — the visitor becomes part of the work.

NEGUA is a project by the KALYPSO collective — Michael Baumann, Alessandro De Matteis and Philipp Dreber — bringing together sculptural, photographic and media-based practices.