Vincent Leroy’s Eccentric Lenses fragment the landscape in Bali

French artist Vincent Leroy has placed a cluster of rotating Fresnel lenses among the rice fields of Munduk, Bali, creating a kinetic sculpture that fragments views of the surrounding landscape.

Called Eccentric Lenses, the work brings circular optical elements together on slender supports. Wind sets them in motion, changing the relationship between the installation, the distant mountains and the vegetation around it.

The sculpture measures three metres by one metre by 1.9 metres. Its construction combines Fresnel lenses, aluminium, carbon fibre and 3D-printed components, according to the artist’s project information.

Eccentric Lenses rotates around displaced centres

Each lens turns around an off-centre axis. As a result, the circles follow eccentric paths rather than a uniform rotation, drifting across one another as the wind changes.

The elements move independently, yet their overlapping trajectories form a single shifting composition. Gaps open and close between the circles, revealing different portions of the landscape beyond.

The thin supports keep the structure visually light. Against the rice fields, the lenses appear as a series of suspended views, with some circles facing the viewer and others turning away.

Fragments of Bali overlap

Seen through the lenses, mountains, trees, rice fields and sky are inverted, divided and brought into new relationships. A distant view can appear beside a fragment of nearby vegetation within the same cluster.

The effect depends on both the sculpture’s movement and the position of the viewer. Walking around the work changes which elements overlap and how the horizon passes through their circular outlines.

Fresnel surfaces remain visible in the close views, adding fine patterns to the images they transmit. At a distance, these details give way to the repeated circular forms and the changing fragments of scenery.

Wind and light shape the work

The wind supplies an unpredictable rhythm, so the arrangement is continually adjusted by its setting. The precise geometry of the lenses meets movement that the artist does not fix in advance.

Daylight changes the appearance of the installation as well. Bright skies, vegetation and the warmer tones of evening pass across the optical surfaces, connecting the work to the changing conditions around it.

Eccentric Lenses extends Leroy’s exploration of movement and perception. His other works include the Point Cloud installation in Beijing, which also uses a collection of individual elements to create a larger spatial composition.

In Munduk, the lens assembly makes the view itself seem mobile. The landscape stays in place while its image continually shifts through the sculpture.

Project Credits

Project: Eccentric Lenses
Artist: Vincent Leroy / @vincent_leroy_studio
Location: Munduk, Bali, Indonesia
Year: 2026
Dimensions: 3 × 1 × 1.9 metres
Materials: Fresnel lenses, aluminium, carbon fibre and 3D-printed components
Photography: Vincent Leroy / @vincent_leroy_studio