The artist Pilar Zeta has installed a new sculpture in Paris. It is called “Mirror Gate II” and is located at the Place du Louvre, in front of the entrance to the museum’s Egyptian collections.

Zeta is a multidisciplinary artist who works with large-scale sculpture and architecture. Her practice explores how we perceive and experience reality through space and form. She often uses geometric shapes, portals, and archetypal forms like the egg to question perception and consciousness.

With “Mirror Gate II” Zeta continues her ongoing collaboration with Marmonil, Egypt’s oldest quarries. It is made from traditional Egyptian heritage stones: yellow alabaster, red Aswan granite, and Breccia Fawakhir. These materials were historically used in temples and monuments. Each stone was chosen for its symbolic meaning: alabaster for sacred light, granite for permanence and solar power, and breccia for geological time.

The sculpture is positioned directly in line with I.M. Pei’s glass pyramid at the Louvre. This creates a dialogue between ancient materials, modern architecture, and contemporary sculpture. The work does not copy historical forms but instead uses ancestral stones to create a present-day spatial experience.

Mirror Gate II – Pilar Zeta
Place du Louvre, Paris
On show from January 16
Vernissage: January 20, 5:30 – 7:00 pm

Photos by Christophe Coenon