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Category: Installation & Sound

Art on the wall is one thing, but installations engage us with texture, light, color and sound, surrounding us and begging for interaction. They challenge conventions of the art world as well as the context of art itself, as these uncanny and unique projects illustrate in vivid three-dimensional form.

Large-Scale Light Art Comes to Life in Amsterdam for Annual Festival

Every winter, visitors and residents alike get to see Amsterdam in a whole new light - literally - as large-scale light art installations add an extra layer of vibrance to the city. For the ...

Hidden Depths: 20 Tentacles of Lurking Sea Creature Sprout from Warehouse

Any horror fan knows hinting at a larger evil with teaser visuals is a classic trick, like letting viewers imagine, for instance, what kind of hideous invader might be putting feelers out the ...

Warnings at Scale: Tiny Signs Highlight Hazards of a Miniaturized World

What may look like a harmless pothole or random remainder of grass takes on a different meaning when viewed from the perspective of the ultra-small, becoming dangerous sinkholes or inviting plots ...

Peeled to Reveal: Condemned Building Neatly “Unzipped” Along its Facades

Cracked open like a coat (or pair of pants), the walls of this structure in England, have been opened up to expose its abandoned interior ahead of its scheduled demolition. "Open to the ...

Fake News: Miniature Signs Around the City Convey Confusing Messages

If all the official signage that can be found around an average city bores you, you might not even notice the ones that are a little bit off, warning you of dangerous pigeons and tiny sinkholes ...

32 Artists Take Over a Hydraulic Power Station for Kazakhstani Exhibition

London’s Wapping Hydraulic Power Station is transformed into a multifaceted exploration of post-Soviet identity for the groundbreaking Focus-Kazakhstan exhibition series, featuring 32 ...

Ephemeral Figures Loom Large in Biodegradable Land Art by Saype

Most graffiti artists never get the chance to paint a human figure measuring a staggering 100,000 square feet, but most of them aren’t working directly on massive mountainsides, either. Swiss ...

Distorted Shapes Made of Tape: Mesmerizing Installations by Darel Carey

Step into one of Darel Carey's art installations and you'll quickly lose your sense of the room's actual dimensions, your confused eyes tripping over illusions of ridges and voids that aren’t ...

A Real Hole in the Wall: World’s Tiniest Office for Brazil’s Agencia Grande

What began as a random hole in a São Paulo wall is now the world’s tiniest office, complete with miniature books, laptops, paperwork and design tools. Emerging creative agency Agencia Grande ...

Ghostly, Plant-Filled Abandoned Houses in Tehran Symbolize Toll of War

A series of abandoned houses in Iran’s capital city overflow with vegetation in varying states of vitality and decay, making them feel untamed, out of control and perhaps impossible to save. In ...

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