The Fall, 2025

Glowing lanterns drip blue light into shallow basins, each droplet tracing delicate ripples that shimmer briefly before vanishing. In The Fall (2025), Christian Partos transforms gravity into a performance, choreographing the descent of liquid light as a cycle of creation and decay. The work exists at the intersection of experiment and elegy, where science serves wonder. Partos’s fascination with optical phenomena imbues the installation with an otherworldly calm; the glowing droplets appear to breathe, their rhythm echoing the viewer’s own pulse. Within this fragile equilibrium, transience becomes luminous. Every falling droplet is a meditation on impermanence, revealing the quiet beauty of moments that dissolve and begin again.