LONDON—Temples, mosques and churches are no strangers to spiritual visions and epiphanies. Now, thanks to German installation artist Rebecca Horn, visitors to St. Paul's cathedral in London can see straight from the heavens into hell.

Installed yesterday, the "elaborate, mordernist" sculpture made of mirrors is "intended to induce a sense of spiritual wellbeing," writes Nigel Reynolds in the Daily Telegraph.

Horn accomplishes the illusion by rigging a revolving mirror inside a stationary one, and having them reflect of the cathedral's ceiling, from which a moon with "fires flaring" hangs.

According to the Telegraph, Horn wanted to "suggest the quasi-religious experience of seeing from the depths of the Earth to the heavens."

The installation coincides with a show of the artist's work at the Hayward Gallery. Horn's other works, the paper notes, include installations featuring a woman "inside a prison made of feathers" and a naked woman "wearing a unicorn's horn walking for a day through a German forest."


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