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Illusion in Installation Art
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Rain Room
An installation where it rains everywhere except on the visitor, using 3D tracking cameras to deactivate nearby water nozzles as the visitor moves.
The Weather Project
A representation of the sun and atmosphere inside the Turbine Hall, achieved by using light and mirrors to create an immersive sun-like illusion in a vast indoor space.
Gravity's Loom
Illusion of flowing fabric across the room, created with thousands of hanging threads that respond to air currents, giving the impression of a woven tapestry in midair.
Infinity Mirrored Room
An illusion of endless space created using a room lined with mirrors, LED lights, and water, achieving a repetitive and infinite appearance.
Room on the Roof
An illusion where the inside of a small tower room appears to unfold into a larger, dreamlike space, using distorted perspectives and a playful combination of colors and shapes.
Leandro’s Pool
An illusion where visitors appear to be submerged in water within a room, using a layer of transparent material suspended over water with colored walls below to simulate depth.
Levitated Mass
A large-scale outdoor installation featuring a massive boulder seemingly floating over a concrete trench that visitors can walk under, all based on precise engineering and balance.
Blur Building
An architectural structure on water creating an illusion of a floating cloud, achieved by pumping lake water into a fog system that envelops the building.
20:50
An endless-seeming expanse of oil achieved by filling a room with a highly reflective substance up to waist level, creating a mirror effect on the ceiling.
Lucid Stead
An illusion of transparency in a wooden shack, where mirror panels reflect the surrounding environment, camouflaging the structure with the desert background.
Dalston House
An illusion of a vertical house where viewers can be seen climbing or hanging off edges, achieved by a giant mirror positioned at a 45-degree angle over a horizontal facade.
The Ames Room
A room that is constructed with a trapezoidal distortion to create an optical illusion where people seem to grow or shrink as they move around the room.
Swing Under the Arch
An illusion where participants seem to swing into a vast portal, using a real swing set with strategic lighting and a semicircular screen.
Vortex
An illusion of a whirlpool created within a gallery floor; achieved by using complex construction techniques that sculpt a descending spiral.
Big Bambú
A walkable structure of bamboo that seems to defy gravity and logic, achieved through the careful arrangement and balance of numerous bamboo poles.
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