Perrotin, Los Angeles
Telepathic Kiss Portal transforms intimacy into architecture, proposing connection as a form of invisible transmission. Two mirrored pyramidal structures face one another like speculative communication devices, suspended between attraction, reflection, and signal. Constructed from pink Portuguese marble and polished stainless steel spheres, the work exists somewhere between sacred object, futuristic experiment, and psychological portal, suggesting that intimacy may begin long before physical contact.
Instructions for Use
Feel the sensation of the spheres and place your body in the perfect center. Let the marble hold your weight. Notice the temperature difference between your body, the stone, and the metallic spheres. Observe how the object feels against you. It might feel comfortable. It might feel strange. This is intentional. Take a slow breath in. Then another.
As your body settles, notice any small shifts in sensation. A subtle warmth. A tingling. A current moving upward through the body, as if contact with the object were activating some dormant circuitry in the nervous system. Imagine your thoughts radiating outward in concentric waves, touching the polished spheres around you like metallic satellites receiving signal.
Bring to mind the person sitting opposite you. Or the person who is not there. This chair can be used either way. Picture them clearly. Observe what happens in your body as you become part of the piece. The stainless steel spheres function like satellites in a private experiment, reflecting fractured versions of reality back into the room. The pink marble behaves as a grounding agent, soft and sensual, yet carrying memory accumulated over millions of years. Beneath you, the ascending forms suggest latent force, as if some invisible mechanism were quietly converting thought into upward motion.
Now imagine sending a single image to the other person. A strong feeling. A sensation. Wait. See if anything arrives back.
Notice whether anticipation begins to alter your breathing. Your skin. The strange chemistry of expectation. The body often detects a signal before the mind understands it. The chair proposes that intimacy may be a form of signal transmission. That anticipation can alter matter. That focused thought, under the right conditions, behaves like architecture.
Open your eyes. Look at the other person without speaking for exactly ten seconds. If reality feels slightly rearranged, the sculpture is functioning correctly.
Congratulations. You just experienced a Telepathic Kiss.
