Anish Kapoor’s S-Curve (2006) is a freestanding, double-curved mirror sculpture made of polished stainless steel. Installed in both museum galleries and outdoor contexts, the work creates an unstable perceptual field: reflections stretch, compress, and invert depending on where the viewer stands.

Scale shifts continuously. At one moment the body appears monumental, elongated like a tower; at another, it collapses into a miniature distortion. The city or gallery folds across its mirrored surface, bending into impossible geometries. The work destabilizes the certainty of proportion, turning architecture and body alike into fluid images.

Representation here becomes an active process. The sculpture does not depict but re-presents — it remakes reality in real time, transforming spectators into performers. Ambiguity thrives: is S-Curve an object, a mirror, an architecture of vision, or all three?

Materiality is crucial. The stainless-steel surface, polished to perfection, erases its own objecthood. The sculpture becomes less about material presence and more about what it reflects — an architecture of perception itself.

Within the Gesamtkunstwerk lens, S-Curve unifies viewer, space, and object into a single system. It is not a sculpture in isolation but an environment in flux, where design and experience become inseparable. Kapoor transforms steel into atmosphere, reflection into vocabulary, and perception into architecture.