Spinning Around

An immersive installation composed of rotating mirrors, Spinning Around reveals and fragments its surroundings to offer a constantly shifting, renewed vision. After a first presentation at the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature in Paris, as part of Paris Design Week 2025, the mirrors are now installed on the forecourt of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Le Havre. Visitors are invited to spin the mirrors, taking part in a choreography of images in perpetual (r)evolution. The landscape doubles and recomposes itself: a kaleidoscopic Le Havre plays with perspectives and comes alive before our eyes.

The cathedral’s façade—one of the rare buildings to have survived the 1944 bombings—thus merges with the characteristic buildings of the reconstruction led by Auguste Perret and the distinctive light of the Norman sky. Spinning Around presents itself as a poetic device that reveals heritage. By amplifying architectural details, reflecting the nuances of the sky, and capturing the geometry of iconic buildings, past and present blend into a non-linear reading.