Yellow Under Pressure, 2025
mixed media installation (ceramics, steel, rubber)
cube cycle #15, production: Rotondes 2025
Yellow Under Pressure (2025) transforms the Cube of Rotondes into a surreal desert-scape. Inspired by Rotondes' shifting environment, this site-specific sculpture installation reflects a space caught between construction and constraint. Scaffolding palm trees compressed against the cube's limits, and ceramic pillars emerging from sand-covered ground suggest a landscape defined by resilience under pressure. The distorted forms and vibrant yellows seem both familiar and uncanny, blending glossy colours with industrial neon reflections to create a disorienting interplay of texture, colour and light.
From outside the Cube, viewers get a glimpse of a dreamlike scene where surfaces deceive, textures shift, and materials challenge perception. One might wonder: How do we squeeze ourselves into the spaces we inhabit, always adapting and shifting, 𝘺𝘦𝘵 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨?
Pictures by © Gilles Kayser