An installation work by Scottish artist Katie Paterson, “Totality,” is open this weekend at UMFA’s Salt Gallery. The installation will be in place through May 20.
“Totality,” which Paterson created in 2016, features approximately 10,000 solar eclipses printed on tiny mirror squares and mounted on a giant sphere, resembling a large disco ball. The images represent eclipses observed over hundreds of years, from 18th-century drawings to modern photographic and telescopic images.
Paired with “Totality” is Paterson’s “Ideas,” which she started in 2014 and is ongoing. That work, the museum said, consists of “concise phrases that take shape in the imagination of whoever reads them.