Reflektor was created for Lumiere London 2018, transforming the heart of St James’s Market into a dynamic field of shifting light. Continuing Studio Roso’s ongoing exploration of mirrored surfaces, the work plays with reflection as both material and medium, responding to the surrounding city and its changing conditions.

Reflectors are traditionally used in lighting to shape beams with precision. Here, Studio Roso embraces their unpredictability, breaking apart controlled light into fractured patterns that scatter across the urban landscape. The resulting “cacophony” of reflections resists engineering, instead offering moments of wonder that slip just beyond control.

The installation exists in two parts: the carefully designed physical structure and the fleeting, ephemeral play of reflections it generates. As daylight shifts to nightfall, and artificial light replaces the sun, the artwork evolves — its surfaces reacting to weather, colour, and movement in the environment.

In this interplay between design and chance, Reflektor becomes less an object than an event: a catalyst for light and reflection, constantly remade by the city that surrounds it.