London's 'Dalston House' creates interactive optical illusion

In London, people are getting the chance to live out their Spiderman dreams of scaling walls. But looks can be deceiving. At first glance, it would appear that people are literally climbing the walls in East London. No, this is not the new Spiderman movie, this is an optical illusion. As part of a new art installation called Dalston House, a large mirror positioned at 45 degrees is used to create this effect. Argentinian artist Leandro Erlich explains. Leandro Erlich, artist of "Dalston House", said, "It is quite strange because there is this huge mirror that reflects the facade, giving the appearance of being vertical allowing people to stroll in this very unusual and quite surreal experience." Surreal indeed. While most art installations require only to be looked at, this one requires participants. Alona Pardo, curator of "Dalston House", said, "Well in its most simplest terms it is very playful and highly participatory installation art and it really requires as you can see behind me, a lot of people interacting with it in order to animate it and to activate it. But also beyond that there are other ideas around perception, ways of seeing how we see, what we see, ideas of architecture and representation. So it works on so many levels, but it is most certainly a very stimulating piece of installation art." If you’d like your chance to participate in a unique art installation, make sure you get to Dalston House by August 4th.