Exhibition
London Design Festival 2019
14 Sep 2019 – 22 Sep 2019
V&A South Kensington
London, United Kingdom
Exhibition
VOID by Dan Tobin Smith + The Experience in partnership with Gemfields
14 Sep 2019 – 22 Sep 2019
Event times
OPENING TIMES
10:30AM – 5:00PM
- 3:00pm closing on Sunday 15th September
- 8:00pm late opening on Thursday 19th & Friday 20th September
Cost of entry
FREE
COLLINS MUSIC HALL
Address
- 11 ISLINGTON GREEN
- London
England - N1 2XH
- United Kingdom
Event map
Designer Dan Tobin Smith and creative studio The Experience Machine, in partnership with Gemfields, present VOID; a multi-sensory spatial installation at Collins Music Hall, Islington.
About
Visitors will become part of an immersive experience, travelling through a series of large-scale projections that showcase the expanded space inside gemstones and map the blurring boundaries between nature and design.
A selection of Mozambican rubies and Zambian emeralds from Gemfields’ mines, which date back millions of years, are brought to life through photography of tiny microcosms magnified to become abstract, galaxy-like structures
Accompanied by other semi-precious gems created in rare geological processes, these unique mineral formations are discovered, suspended and frozen in time.
The installation considers the concept of containment and scale, employing spatial design to explore the natural borders formed within these unique mineral formations.
By translating moving image into a contained physical form and scoring the experience with harmonised layers of the human voice – by female electronic drone choir NYX – visitors are invited to enter within the portrait of a gemstone’s natural inclusion.
