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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.

The Red Line: Moody Neon Light Installations in Remote Places

Red neon lights arranged in geometric shapes or casting eerie illumination onto darkened trees almost seem like a natural phenomenon in the vein of the aurora borealis, captured by photographers ...

The Crying Forest: Faces of Indigenous Brazilians Fill the Amazon Rainforest

Many times larger than life, the faces of indigenous Brazilian people illuminate the darkened Amazon Rainforest, projected directly onto the trees as a symbolic representation of their connection ...

Art of Camouflage: Flying Bird Silhouettes Blend into Broken Window Voids

A boy aiming his slingshot into the sky seems to aim both at the broken windows of an abandoned building but also a series of birds that seem to appear in the gaps of cracked glass, transfixed in ...

Garden of Whispers: Surreal Sand Dunes Fill 13th-Century Gothic Church

A makeshift wooden walkway winds along a strand-lit and tree-lined path between dunes, creating a surreal environment within the context of this historic church. Set in a religious space ...

Parasitic Art: 11 Installations Taking Over Buildings Like Organic Growths

Some art just can’t be contained, even by the buildings that house it, expanding beyond these constrictions like alien appendages to burst through windows, wrap around columns and slink onto ...

Beauty in Decay: Moody Murals Bring Human Faces Back to Abandoned Places

Abandoned places are often steeped in a mixture of emotional impressions, commingling a sense of loss and a confrontation of our own mortality with slivers of hopefulness for a new future, as ...

Heavenly Vaults: Virtual Reality Ceiling Installation in a Gothic Cathedral

The ceilings of Paris’ Saint Eustache Church are once again alive and flickering with a surreal display of abstract imagery as artist Miguel Chevalier projects ‘Voûtes Célestes’ onto its ...

Art of Deception: NYC Monument to Giant Octopus Attack Misdirects Tourists

Visitors to Battery Park in Manhattan will find memorials to fallen soldiers, sunken sailors and 400 passengers who perished when a Staten Island ferry was attacked by a giant ...

Forest of Resonating Lamps: Brilliant Interactive Illuminated Installation

Dangling from a darkened ceiling like strange bioluminescent blooms, hundreds of high-tech lamps respond to the movements of people in the room, glowing in a particular color that resonates ...

Black Rock City’s Biggest Art Car: Converted 747 Lands at Burning Man

  A temporary metropolis for tens of thousands built annually in Nevada's remote Black Rock Desert, the Burning Man festival is famous for its extreme architecture and creative art cars, ...

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