AROTIN & SERGHEI
Infinite Screen / Reverse Perspective
intermedial live generated composition installation
version for five monitors and sound
in dialogue with the infinite.
tribute to Pavel Florenskij

The artwork was realized inspired by encounters and dialogues with astrophysicists at ALMA Observatory, Chile
^{Installation view at Hosek Contemporary, Berlin, 2026 © AROTIN & SERGHEI Contemporary Art 2026}

AROTIN & SERGHEI continue the exploration of the infinite in new angles: Human perception, cosmic processes, and philosophical questions interweave. 

The new work-in-progress is inspired by the artists encounters with philosopher and Florensky-specialist, Silvano Tagliagambe; the planet formation specialist Antonio Hales; the astrophysicist Gaspar Galaz; and from the artists research journey to the driest and there darkest place on earth with best view to the stars: The intense landscapes of the Atacama desert in Chile, and to the observatories of ESO, Vera Rubin and ALMA, situated on its summits. Each of these international astrophysical institutions reveals totally different approaches and technical ways of exploration and detection of the infinite unknown space around us.

In their installation Reverse Perspective, AROTIN & SERGHEI position their screens similar to the antennas of Alma observatory – upward, toward the infinite. The extremely intense, low and spaced resolution of the monitors makes visible each single light pulse. The screens revealing traces of detected realities. The sound installation is composed with cosmic captures by  “Alma-sounds” astrophysical platform, particles of planet genesis.

The concept of the “reverse perspective” refers to the philosopher Pavel Florensky, for whom truth doesn’t reveal itself in the way we usually look at things. It appears when our vision suddenly shifts—when something changes the angle from which we see the world. He sees an echo of this reversal in the art of the icon. Its inverted perspective in fact doesn’t imitate human sight; it draws us somewhere else. It pushes our gaze to move, to leave its usual position, and to discover a space we couldn’t perceive before.

Returning from the desert to Europe, the artists realized the installation Layers of Reality in the absolute center of Mediterranean Sea, around the archeological site of Pozzo Santa Cristina, in Sardinia: a digital projection on a prehistoric basalt rock at Sciola Foundation’s Sound Garden: a superposition of realities, working with the same visual coloring methods that are used by Alma astrophysicists when revealing fields of planet formation.