MASA is pleased present
Shifted Rubber Pink Lights by
Brian Thoreen, originally commissioned for the restaurant
Rosetta in Mexico City. The pink rubber lights are created in folded layers of hand-dyed pink silicon, suspended by a brass hanging system and illuminated with integrated LED lights.
Constructed as vertical compositions, the lights are built from stacked silicone sheets that bend, roll, and gather into a sequence of soft cylindrical folds and translucent panels. Light travels through the material rather than projecting outward, producing a warm, diffused glow that shifts subtly across the layered surfaces. The silicone—both industrial and tactile—reveals the pressure of each fold, allowing the illumination to accentuate variations in thickness, tone, and transparency.
There is a quiet sensuality in the material itself. The supple silicone appears almost skin-like in its softness, its folds suggesting gestures of draping, compression, and release. As the light passes through the pink surface, it creates a gentle, bodily warmth that transforms the rigid language of wall lighting into something more intimate and atmospheric.
Hovering between sculpture, lighting, and architectural intervention,
Shifted Rubber Pink Lights explores how industrial materials can be manipulated into forms that feel both constructed and organic—where light, material, and space converge in a composition that is at once precise, tactile, and quietly sensual.