The Engine

Field of Light

The Engine is both artwork and instrument — a living environment built from mirrored architecture, large-scale screens, and responsive technologies that together form the axis of the museum. Designed as a space that can continuously transform, it functions as a portal where light, sound, and sensory elements reshape the room in ever-changing ways.

Within this environment, Nachum introduces Field of Light, the inaugural experience inside The Engine.

Visitors enter a dark, expansive space where constellations of particles travel through the air like distant stars. Sound moves through the room with a sense of motion and gravity, creating the feeling of drifting through an unseen horizon. Light falls, gathers, and dissolves in continuous cycles, producing an atmosphere that feels suspended between stillness and movement.

At the center of the installation, a luminous portal of water and light gradually appears within the surrounding field. Formed from digital particles, the orb exists between presence and disappearance. The environment responds to the body: movement disperses controls the orb as it reshapes its form and follows the visitor in space. Each encounter shifts the composition of the room, so that the space is never experienced the same way twice.

Mirrored surfaces multiply fragments of light and reflection, dissolving the boundaries of the architecture and extending the environment into what feels like an infinite field. Within this space, visitors move through an experience that evokes the sensation of traveling through space and time — a place where perception slows and the environment seems to breathe around them.

For Nachum, The Engine is conceived as an evolving artistic universe. While Field of Light inaugurates the space, the environment itself is designed to transform through future installations and collaborations, allowing the same room to become entirely new worlds through shifts in image, sound, and sensory experience.

This inaugural installation also introduces collaborations with Naiyo and Aeir. Naiyo, the experimental studio exploring jewelry, objects, and fashion at the intersection of art and material culture, presents a collection of jewelry and a limited long-sleeve T-shirt created with Mercer Labs and Aeir, reflecting the visual language of the installation. The environment also incorporates Grand Rose, a fragrance developed by Aeir using molecular fermentation technology that reinterprets the scent of rose as a contemporary expression of rainwater and rose petals, adding a subtle olfactory dimension to the atmosphere of the space.

Together, these elements mark the first chapter of The Engine — a space conceived by Roy Nachum as a living environment where collaborations happen and art, technology, and the senses converge.

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