A public work that uses the iconography of a satellite and a disco ball to embody ideas of queer utopia and the atomization of the world around us.
To Reflect Everything is now on view at Washington Square Park in January-March 2025, inviting activation and engagement with the local public.
Canadian artist Ryan Van Der Hout’s monumental sculpture is a hybrid of a disco ball and space satellite that appears perpetually poised to launch while remaining bound to Earth.
An artistic gesture to queer definitions, functions, actions, and values, this mirrored object creates a dialogue between nature, architecture, the community, and the self. It encourages acts of critical imagination as it confronts us with glimpses of other possible realities – visions of the world that could be.
To Reflect Everything is open to the public from early January through the end of March 2025. It’s location: Washington Square Park, is an iconic gathering place that has borne witness to over a century of LGBTQ+ histories — from the cruising areas of the late 1800s, to the galvanizing Gay Liberation Front marches after Stonewall, to annual celebrations like the Dyke March. This 7-foot mirrored disco ball fused with a satellite seeks to honor these legacies while projecting visions of the future. Trans- planting the disco ball from underground clubs to the park’s open air subverts ideas of public/private and visibility/invisibility. Installed amidst the park’s walkway, To Reflect Everything will shimmer in powerful dialogue with the park’s past and present while speculating future horizons.
Co-presented by Future Fair, with thanks to the support of the City of Toronto.
