- Artist
- Tania Candiani
- Year
- 2022
- Medium
- Sculpture, Galvanized aluminum, 24 x 12 m
- Artistic Residency
- Collide
Supersymmetry is a site-specific sculpture installed at the University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC) in Mexico City
In physics, supersymmetry is a proposed extension of the Standard Model of particle physics that predicts a partner particle for each elementary particle. This theory aims to address some of the Standard Model’s unresolved issues, such as the existence of dark matter—the mysterious substance that makes up 85% of the universe’s matter—and to explain the Higgs boson’s mass.
Candiani was inspired by a photographic negative from a cloud chamber experiment, an early particle detector that made subatomic particles visible by revealing their trails. In the water mirror, the aluminum structures evoke the tracks and movements of subatomic particles, reflected on the water’s surface, alluding to the yet-undiscovered ‘superpartners’ of fermions and bosons.
