One of the world’s foremost contemporary artists, Anish Kapoor is widely celebrated for artworks that blur the boundary between architecture and sculpture. Many of his public art installations have become international recognised landmarks, including Cloud Gate (2004) at Chicago’s Millenium Park, Dismemberment Site I (2003-2009) at The Farm in Kairara Bay, Auckland, New Zealand, and Ark Nova (2013), the world’s first inflatable mobile concert hall, created in collaboration with Japanese architect Arata Isozaki as part of a Lucerne Festival project for Japan’s Miyagi Prefecture.

S-Curve, crafted from two seamlessly joined pieces of mirror-polished stainless steel constituting a reverse-S shape, has convex and concave surfaces that decrease, enlarge and distort images of its surroundings. Creating optical illusions that twist and turn unexpectedly, the sculpture seems to have a life of its own, revealing a new world where humans, environment and architecture collide and entwine in beautiful and vertiginous unison. This work of optical wizardry conjures up a parallel world. When viewed from the edge, however, the reality of objects and the sculpture’s meandering curves become evident, like a sublime exposure of a myth.