Description
Look Up Mumbai is an installation in the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, where visitors to the museum lie down and look up into a dome to view images of ceilings of many of the most spectacular buildings in Mumbai. It offers a unique portrait of this city’s varied architecture, which includes churches, mosques, temples, government and industrial buildings, private homes and nightclubs. It incorporates more than sixty fish-eye images that are presented in a random sequence, transforming from one into another using specially programmed digital animations.This site-specific installation has a 4K resolution, 6 m diameter projection dome installed on the ground floor to emulate the museum’s 20 m dome above. Visitors recline on a round couch below the dome, enveloped in the digital scenography of images of ceilings—Gothic and contemporary, sacred and secular, monumental and everyday—that transmute from one to another above them. This work is accompanied by an original soundscape created by a leading contemporary Indian composer and master musicians.
| Period | 28 Jan 2016 → 28 Feb 2016 |
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| Held at | Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, Mumbai, India |
| Degree of Recognition | International |