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Boris Acket and Sabine Marcelis | Sunbeam, Captured

A beam of light meets a shallow layer of water and unfolds into shifting reflections. In Sunbeam, Captured, Boris Acket and Sabine Marcelis reconstruct a fleeting appearance of sunlight: actuators move the water while a coloured mirror modulates its light. The mechanism does not freeze an image; it prolongs the conditions of a moment that,…

A white beam strikes a circular water-covered mirror with blue and orange reflections in a dark room.

Boris Acket et Sabine Marcelis, Sunbeam, Captured, vue de The Dark Rooms Vertical, Berlin, 2024. Photographie : Carsten Beier. Source : Clara Sauer.

Boris Acket and Sabine Marcelis, Sunbeam, Captured, installation view at The Dark Rooms Vertical, Berlin, 2024. Photograph: Carsten Beier. Source: Clara Sauer. Source

Installation video documentation published by Studio Sabine Marcelis.

A beam of light meets a shallow layer of water and unfolds into shifting reflections. In Sunbeam, Captured, Boris Acket and Sabine Marcelis reconstruct a fleeting appearance of sunlight: actuators move the water while a coloured mirror modulates its light. The mechanism does not freeze an image; it prolongs the conditions of a moment that, in nature, would already have disappeared.

Location : Online documentation of an earlier installation, shared again on 29 September 2026. The photograph shows its presentation at The Dark Rooms Vertical, Berlin, Germany, from 26 April to 10 May 2024; it does not document a new exhibition in 2026.

Artists : Boris Acket, born in 1988, is an artist and composer working with sound, light and motion. Sabine Marcelis is a Rotterdam-based artist and designer whose research centres on materials, colour and the experience of space.

Sources : Nico Kok, 29.09.2026 ; Boris Acket ; Sabine Marcelis.