Tree Game/Toy in Seven Mirrored Images 1974

The sculptor Alberto Carneiro created "Tree Game/Toy in Seven Mirrored Images" with organic materials like wood and bamboo, and reflective surfaces. The installation presents two distinct structures: one featuring a series of light grey screens held by bamboo frames, and another holding a mirrored image of a tree, all connected with scattered branches that seem to flow across the floor. Carneiro creates meaning by contrasting natural and artificial elements. The mirrored screens reflect and distort the environment, challenging our perception of reality. The mirrored tree extends the natural form into another dimension. The arrangement of branches across the floor acts as a visual link, binding these individual scenes into a cohesive experience, blurring the boundaries between the real and the reflected. The artwork presents a complex interplay of presence and absence, reality and representation, inviting us to question the stability of meaning and the nature of our relationship with the environment.