Artist Caroline Gueye presents 'WURUS', a new installation for the Senegal Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale. Curated by Massamba Mbaye, the work is a shifting field of brass and polymer bronze elements, using mirrors and light to create an environment where perception is contingent on the viewer's movement and position. The title invokes gold, opening onto histories of extraction, but the work deliberately resists singular meaning.
The installation exemplifies Gueye's practice of constructing contingent environments, informed by her background in physics. It transforms the Palazzo Navagero into an active perceptual apparatus, challenging fixed notions of value and representation. The work positions value not as inherent in objects, but as something produced through the relational conditions of looking, making the viewer an active participant in its unfolding.