Artist Statement
In Mercury Panel, the plane becomes a current. Shallow, hand-driven undulations run laterally and then collide, breaking highlights into filaments and pools. At a distance the work reads as a lucid field of blue; close up it fractures into thousands of micro-mirrors that fold the room, the viewer and the landscape into a single animated skin. The piece does not depict water—it performs it—letting reflections surge, eddy and settle along the steel. This panel sits at the core of Kirov’s Mercury Effect research, where polished metal ceases to be a surface and becomes a lens.
1/1 Modern Exhibition
Install flush on a flat, neutral wall with a clean sightline. Avoid busy surroundings and competing mirrors; allow at least 2–3 m frontal viewing distance so the field resolves, with a slow walk-by for parallax. Use soft, high-CRI grazing light to draw the relief without hot spots; daylight works beautifully where blue sky can enter the reflection. Maintenance is minimal: microfiber only and a pH-neutral solution; no abrasives or chlorides.
1/2 Renaissance Works
A planar mirror turned river—where the horizon paints itself and the world becomes the pigment.
Details
Material: mirror-polished 316L stainless steel (Mercury Effect).
Format: wall-mounted sculptural panel / relief.
Dimensions: 2950 × 2450 mm.
Year: 2017.
Display: galleries, lobbies, private interiors and public foyers.