Ether

The mirrored surface is no longer merely a material property; it becomes a vehicle for contemplating time, transience, and human presence.

The physical principle of reflection here acquires a poetic dimension. Light must travel to the surface and then to our eye, so the image we perceive at any given moment already belongs to a minuscule instant of the past. The roughening of the stainless steel surface translates this idea into a visible process – the precise reflection transforms into mist, a cloud, or an indistinct trace.

Solid steel thus captures something that cannot be held. Ether opens a line of creation in which Vilém Frič explores the relationship between matter, image, time, and our place in space. In subsequent works, he develops this contemplation by altering perspective and introducing actual movement of mirrored surfaces.