Parapivot is a commissioned installation by Alicja Kwade at the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

[1][2][3] Across the two pieces, there are nine balls, each made of marble and granite, sourced from nine different countries, including Brazil, Germany, India, Italy, Norway, and Sweden.

[8] According to The New York Times, Kelly Baum said that Kwade was chosen for the commission because her work engaged with science, especially astrophysics and illusionism.

[3] Zachary Small for Hyperallergic wrote that in the installation, Kwade captured "the universe’s unfathomable scope into a few frames" and engaged the tensions between art and science, as they relate to "objective truth".

[6] Jason Farago of The New York Times said, "Her sculpture makes use of optical tricks and careful positioning to evoke the instability, and the unknowability, of our place in the world."