Even the subtlest expression of objects with intentional behavior can bring them to life in the eyes of observers. In a world increasingly inhabited by artificial intelligence, sensorial architecture and robotic agency, would our perception of an environment created as something inert and lifeless change to something rich in synthetic personalities and strange artificial life forms? Fearful Symmetry explores the minimal motor stimuli that produce irresistible perceptions of life.

Borrowing a phrase from one of William Blake’s poems, “The Tiger”, the installation is partially inspired by the text’s visceral description of a nighttime encounter with a tiger. Glynn’s work is a living light fixture, primitive in appearance to avoid figurative inference to life, a gleaming and penetrative tetrahedron gliding through the air, rushing down to play with visitors and then going up again and pulling away when too many visitors come up too close. First shown in 2012 at the Tate Modern in London.