Immersing in the work and not just to look at it: this is the concept of the site-specific installation “Mise-en-abyme”, literally from the French “placed into the abyss”, designed by the London creative studio duo De Allegri & Fogale for the 2015 edition of the London Design Festival and now again on the scene of the British capital, at the Oxo Tower Wharf.
An almost sensorial experience, combining techniques and bright colors, which will animate the building's district until February 10, 2017, which is the site of a network of designers and restaurant businesses. The materials of the original structure - created in collaboration with Johnson Tiles and previously exposed close to the Victoria and Albert Museum - have been recycled and specifically adapted for the outside of the new location. Moreover, for the night lighting of the contemporary sculpture the Innermost team participated providing its new entry “Cabled”, a flexible linear LED.
Mise-en-abyme is intended to reflect the movement of passing through bodies, in order to encourage the interaction between people and public space.
Fascinated by the Renaissance period, namely the discovery of perspective, Laetitia de Allegri and Matteo Fogale actually conceived the installation as a landscape of semi-transparent overlapping shapes that play with viewers’ sense of perspective. Creating an illusion of depth, the tiles’ joints makes passengers want to get closer and explore the square footage. Each acrylic panel is connected to the other through the nuanced chromatic effect, for an explosion of color visible from the Riverside Walkway, the Bernie Spain Gardens and the Upper Ground.
Watch the video interview on the London Design Festival 2015
