At first glance it looks like the people hanging out of windows and clambering up the façade of this Victorian terrace house have developed superpowers, but all is not as it seems. This unusual scene is really an illusion created by Argentine artist Leandro Erlich using a giant mirror and a model of the front of a house laid out horizontally on the ground.
Curator Alona Pardo says the art installation in Dalston, east London, is a “stimulating piece” that challenges perception, including “ways of seeing, how we see and what we see”.
Erlich is known for his three-dimensional visual illusions. His previous projects include a swimming pool, a lift shaft and a revolving flat, that all invited the viewer to think differently about how they interacted with space.
Leandro Erlich’s Dalston House is open to visitors from 26 June to 4 August 2013.
