Center, 2004

Ivana Franke’s Center (2004) suspends delicate, transparent monofilament threads within a softly illuminated cube, forming ethereal spheres that appear and vanish as viewers move around them. Using minimal elements — light, line, and air — Franke transforms perception itself into the subject, crafting what she calls “an architecture for seeing.” As visitors shift position, the seemingly empty space fills with new forms; motion generates structure, and stillness becomes a site of discovery.
The work balances certainty and change, inviting reflection on the delicate boundary between observation and imagination. Center is less a fixed object than a living question: where does vision end and imagination begin? Within its quiet, shimmering lattice, every step recalibrates reality, revealing how perception is always active, provisional, and intimate.