ONIBI

Onibi is a textile kinetic installation that evokes an interdimensional portal suspended in time and space. In Japanese folklore, onibi—literally “demon fire”—are mysterious floating flames said to appear at night in forests, graveyards, and liminal landscapes. They are believed to be manifestations of wandering spirits, yōkai, or residual human emotions, flickering at the boundary between the natural and supernatural worlds.

This installation draws on these beliefs, transforming the floating fire into a tactile, kinetic form. Suspended in space and animated by subtle movement, the work suggests a meeting point where human presence and the spirits of nature converge—an ephemeral threshold where worlds briefly overlap.

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This installation and its construction methods are original artistic expressions developed by Lua Rivera as part of the Rivera Rhizomatic Construction Method.