2017
Inkjet printed on aluminium
(49cm x 33cm)
The colored halo is the result of a scientific experiment in quantum mechanics: a laser beam showing the superposition of two entangled (or linked) photons. Underneath is a Klein bottle, which mathematics explain as a surface that is both interior and exterior at once. Around the bottle, an excerpt of The Seven Sermons to the Dead by Carl Gustave Jung has been doubled and overlapped. In this text by Jung, the creature named Abraxas embodies the union of opposites. It somehow prefigures the principle of superposition in quantum mechanics according to which a particle can have contradictory states or be in several places simultaneously.