The Moon series by Not Vital distils the artist’s longstanding preoccupation with place, perception, and the poetic transformation of natural phenomena into a singular, immediately legible form. Realised as highly polished, cratered spheres in stainless steel, these works draw upon scientific imaging of the lunar surface while simultaneously departing from strict topography to embrace an idealised, almost dreamlike vision. Their mirrored skins collapse the distance between celestial body and terrestrial viewer: the moon is no longer remote, but brought into intimate proximity, its surface animated by shifting reflections of landscape, light, and human presence. In this oscillation between empirical reference and imaginative reconstruction, Vital situates the work at the intersection of object, image, and experience.

At once monumental and elusive, the Moon sculptures articulate a tension between permanence and ephemerality that runs throughout Vital’s practice. The perfect sphere suggests timelessness and universal order, yet its fractured, concave craters produce unstable and fragmented reflections, rendering the work perpetually in flux. Installed in both gallery and outdoor contexts, the sculptures operate as sensitive instruments of their surroundings, absorbing and reconfiguring the environment in real time. As such, Moon functions not merely as representation but as a dynamic site of encounter – where cosmic scale is rendered tangible, and where the viewer is implicated within a continuously shifting field of perception.