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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.

Hovering Tiny Black House Haunts the Woods Under a Railway Bridge

Looking like something out of a creepy fairytale, this little black house hovers in the air beneath the arch of an old railway bridge, a spindly ladder reaching down into the fallen leaves. If ...

Uninterrupted Views: Billboards Blended Into Their Natural Backdrops

For just a split-second as you zoom by in your vehicle, you’ll catch the perfect alignment of 2D imagery on a billboard and the real, three-dimensional mountains in the background, eliminating ...

Teamlab Jungle: Step Inside a Massive Musical Instrument Made of Light

Anyone who visits ‘Music Festival, TeamLab Jungle’ this summer will get to immerse themselves in a space made of light, interacting with moving beams to help produce collaborative ...

Modern Mazes: 15 Labyrinths Made of Glass, Steel, Light and Salt

Escaping the convoluted confines of the conventional hedge-in-a-garden, the labyrinth takes on ever more complex forms to better confuse you with, especially when mirrors, glass or mechanical ...

Glow-in-the-Dark Outdoor Art: 15 Designs That Come Alive At Night

Phosphorescent paints, pigments and pebbles that charge via sunlight by day and glow after dark transform the nighttime urban landscape, illuminating murals, bike paths, skate parks, rivers and ...

Vertigo Wallpaper: Warped 3D Room Illusions Transform Flat Gallery Surfaces

You could be forgiven for cautiously entering one of these rooms full of wavy sketched lines, stepping over obstacles that aren’t really there, uncertain whether parts of the walls are really ...

Luminous Loops: Interactive Light Display Inspired by the Zoetrope

Take a seat inside this human-sized zoetrope, pull the bar back and forth and watch as fairytale imagery come to life around you. ‘Loop’ is the main installation at this year’s ...

Mobile Remix: Cement Mixer Disco Ball Turns Streets into Night Clubs

Cladding a cement mixer in pixelated mirror squares, a French artist has created a giant glittering disco ball on wheels able to turn vacant lots and construction sites into instant party ...

AnonyMouse: Tiny Rodent-Sized Shops Installed Along Swedish Sidewalks

It would be easy to miss this incredibly tiny rodent-sized shop set into a wall in Malmö, Sweden, if not for the lights advertising its red-and-white-striped awning and the miniature foods in ...

Cut Grass: Sutured Landscape Installation Stitches Open Lawn Back Together

Ground Operation is a conceptually simple earthwork: an incision made in a grassy landscape is pealed back then stitched back together, much like an open wound after an injury or ...

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