Private Event

Middle East, 2024

Client: Private

Materials: 22 Silver Tyvek panels of 6m high and 80cm wide, to form a circle. 

Dance of the Capulets – 7 Silver Tyvek panels 6m long by 70cm wide, threaded onto custom extruded Aluminium square rods.

Commissioned by a private collector to mark her daughter’s wedding, this installation was conceived as a contemporary ritual rather than a decorative gesture. The brief called for a focal moment that honoured tradition through spatial choreography. Drawing on ceremonial practices of bridal revelation within Arabic culture, the work used movement as a temporal threshold — a passage from anticipation to presence.

Twenty-two silver Tyvek panels formed a circular enclosure, creating a protected inner zone. Through a slow mechanical lift, the panels rose in unison, transforming architecture into performance and revealing the bride at the centre. The constraint lay in achieving emotional intensity without spectacle. Guests became witnesses rather than viewers, experiencing the installation as a collective pause — a calibrated unfolding of time, light, and motion that framed the human body as the event’s true centre.

Inspired by Prokofiev’s Dance of the Capulets, this installation translates musical tension and ceremonial weight into a sculptural procession. Developed for a private event, the work explores how structure can amplify drama without excess.

Following a period of material research, a custom extruded aluminium rod system was developed to give the folded Tyvek both rigidity and expressive range. Seven elongated panels were threaded onto the frames, allowing the origami to twist and expand into bold, suspended forms. Installed as a sequence, the work guided movement through the space, its rhythm unfolding as guests passed alongside it. Rather than a singular focal point, the installation operated as an atmosphere — a measured interplay of discipline and emotion, where material, form, and procession quietly performed together.