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“...The curious thing about double mirrors, concave mirrors, when you put them together, is that they don’t give you an infinite repeatability… what interests me is that from certain angles and positions there’s no image at all in either mirror. I’m very interested in the way that they seem to reverse, affirm and then negate… to place the viewer with these blinding mirrors in this narrow passage… this transitional space… somehow at an oblique angle to the mirrors’ ‘visuality’ or the viewer’s visibility to be caught in the contest of mirrors. They cancel each other out in one moment and yet demanding that they be looked at from a strange, oblique perspective… where time and space are seemingly absent, at a standstill… in that narrow passage, paradoxically there is a restlessness, an unease… as I said before, a transitional movement—reverse, affirm, negate.” (A. Kapoor quoted in H. K. Bhabha, "Anish Kappor: Making Emptiness," Anish Kapoor, exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2009, pp. 171-172)