LONDON.- New York-based artist Josiah McElheny is a sculptor, performance artist, writer and filmmaker, best known for his use of glass with other materials. For his Bloomberg Commission he uses light and mirrors to transform the Whitechapel Gallery into a hall of mirrors. Josiah McElheny is the latest artist invited to create a new work of art for The Bloomberg Commission sited in the former Whitechapel library (now part of the Gallery), built in 1892 as a ‘lantern for learning’. Seven large-scale, mirrored sculptures will be arranged as multiple reflective screens for the artist’s interpretation of groundbreaking experimental abstract films, programmed to change throughout the year. The sculptures will reflect and refract the projected film selection, saturating the whole gallery and visitors in images and light. Refracted, distorted and multiplied, the moving images explore how abstraction is used