My beautiful Halo

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An artistic intervention on the theme of home
11 steles, 30 × 30 × 300 cm,
mirrored, mixed media, price on request

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What does home mean to us? Is it part of shared ideas of belonging, or a deeply personal expression of our longing for safety and familiarity?
This installation approaches such questions through sensory experience rather than definition.

As children, home is—ideally—a place where the world feels whole, where love provides the ground for growth. When that primal sense of shelter is lost, the absence is profound. With age, home often becomes less a geographical point than a state of being. Is it not our loved ones who make us feel at home? Or even a sense of inner belonging? Could our very aura be a form of home—an inviolable sphere no one else may occupy?

Today these questions resonate with urgency. Political instability, climate change, digital transformation, and shifting values demand a renewed awareness of connection and responsibility.

The work consists of eleven tall, mirrored steles. Their reflective surfaces turn the gaze back onto the viewer, provoking questions: Where is my place in society? Where do I belong? Do I dare to meet myself in the mirror? Reflection—literal and metaphorical—becomes the core of the piece.
Digital texts appear and shift across the surfaces, amplifying the dialogue and inviting exchange.

Arranged as a rhythmic ensemble, the steles evoke the presence of a forest—a timeless place of retreat and self-reflection. Across literature, the forest has always been charged with emotions and metaphors, which reverberate here as visitors move through the work.

In the Leimental valley, the search for identity and belonging acquires special resonance. This landscape—where nature, culture, and proximity to Basel interweave—mirrors the diversity of its inhabitants. My installation distills this richness into multiplied reflections of people and place. The question “Where do I belong?” emerges here in a dialogue between landscape, history, society, and individual experience.

The former transformer house offers the ideal site. Once a hub of energy distribution, it shaped the valley’s social and economic life. Its patina, ceramic insulators, and traces of history converse with the present moment. My installation extends this dialogue, drawing visitors into a forest of mirrors where they encounter both themselves and the place they inhabit.