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Point of Unity at dusk: a tall mirrored ring between a disc above and a disc below, two people sitting inside. Photo: Mykola Kabluka

Art · 2025 · Playa art · Unofficial chapel of Burning Man 2025

Point of Unity

A mirrored circle that roots the sky to the desert floor. The unofficial chapel of Burning Man 2025, home to more than twenty weddings.

Point of Unity is a 2025 installation by Ukrainian artist Mykola Kabluka: a meditative structure that physically and symbolically connects the sky with the ground. At its centre floats a circular mirror almost seven metres across, its trusses hidden in thin columns so it seems weightless, above a second mirror of laminated glass underfoot; at its centre stands a massive circular mirrored form, a precise architectural gesture that turns reflection into experience.

The piece does not depict unity; it creates the conditions for it. Visitors step inside a circle where mirrored floors and panels dissolve the boundaries of space, the sky seems to surround them, and the horizon bends inward. The work is completed only through participation: each person becomes part of the composition the moment they enter.

By day it refracts the desert light into one continuous reflective surface. At night it becomes calm and focused, a place of stillness amid the movement of the city. It became the main unofficial chapel of Burning Man 2025, home to more than twenty wedding ceremonies.

It came to the playa with Kurenivka as a clear Ukrainian voice, speaking through presence, balance and restraint rather than noise. After Black Rock City it is meant to return to Ukraine as a cultural landmark.

Kabluka, a lighting designer and founder of Expolight and Kabluka Light & Digital Sculptures, calls the piece the result of twenty-five years spent working with light. From 12 to 20 September 2026 Point of Unity stood in front of St Paul's Cathedral at the London Design Festival, reimagined for the site and shown in the UK for the first time. The festival selected it together with Soul, Kabluka's laser projection on the cathedral's facade, and ranked the two first among its landmark installations.

Kabluka said he wanted the two pieces to tell the world about a Ukraine that, even at war, keeps creating, dreaming about the future and inspiring others. A piece that began on the playa with a Ukrainian camp ended up in the heart of London.

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In their words

Voices

“The installation explored fundamental questions of presence and wholeness, reminding us that change in the world begins with each of us.”

Mykola Kabluka Artist of Point of Unity Archipanic, 2025

“It is a reminder that even in times of greatest challenges, art remains a powerful force.”

Mykola Kabluka Artist Archipanic, 2025

Photographs

Point of Unity at sunset, visitors around the mirrored ring, red light on the playaLooking up from inside Point of Unity at night: the mirrored disc reflecting coloured lights and stars

Credits

Artist
Mykola Kabluka
Photography
Mykola Kabluka, Mark Fromson

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