For MuseumN8 Amsterdam, I created a site-specific light and mirror installation connecting the Rembrandt Huis with the Amsterdam Theaterschool,
located directly opposite one another across the street.

The installation was conceived as a contemporary dialogue between Rembrandt and the students who continue to learn across the street from his former home. A powerful light source was positioned on the roof of the museum and directed toward a field of mirrors installed on the roof deck of the Theaterschool. The mirrors became the students within the work. Rather than simply receiving the light, they redirected it back toward its source. Each mirror acted as both receiver and transmitter: light travelled from the museum to the school, was captured by the mirrors, and returned as a new beam onto the facade of the museum. The physical act of reflection became a metaphor for the process of learning—not as a one-way transfer of knowledge, but as something that is absorbed, transformed and returned.

The distance between the two buildings was an essential part of the work. The street became the space between teacher and student, while the reflected light created an invisible connection across it. What appeared from the street as a play of light on the museum facade was, in fact, the result of a conversation taking place between the two buildings. The mirrored reflections also introduced ideas of repetition, fragmentation and perspective. Multiple reflections transformed a single source of light into a changing field of light across the facade, echoing the way knowledge is multiplied and altered as it passes from one generation to another.

Alongside this conceptual investigation, the installation was part of my research into creating spatial depth through color. The interplay of orange and green was used to explore the relationship between foreground and background, translating principles associated with Rembrandt's painting practice into a three-dimensional, architectural setting.