'Hide & Seek' at MoMA PS1
Dream the Combine's Hide & Seek, the winner of the 2018 Young Architects Program, opened today at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens. World-Architects visited at lunchtime today to take some photos and a video of the installation.
Dream the Combine's Hide & Seek was selected in March, when it was asserted the installation would "[enable] surprising connections throughout the adjoining courtyards of MoMA PS1." Movable mirrors would "move in the wind or with human touch, permitting dislocating views and unique spatial relationships across the space that foster unexpected interactions." Did those assertions hold true?
What cannot be grasped in photos is what happens when a mirror moves. The steel frames allow people to move them up and down, and side to side, creating mesmerizing effects that can be captured in video (like the one below, in which I'm moving the mirror with my left hand and shooting with my phone in my right hand) but are best seen in person. The interactivity and Inception-like trippiness of Hide & Seek should make it especially popular during MoMA PS1's Warm Up music series, which starts during this weekend's heat wave.