Step inside the London art exhibition that will warp your perception
Is it a photograph or a modernist painting? You decide.
I've never been so viscerally affected by an art exhibition as by the Anish Kapoor retrospective at London's Hayward Gallery, which runs until October 18.
From depthless blackhole pieces that use Vantablack, the planet's darkest light-absorbing material, to give the impression you are staring into a void, to mirrored steel installations that distort reflections and disorientate the viewer's perception, it's a sensorial tour de force.
The Mumbai-born artist's work is so ambitious and mind-expanding that it provokes one gallery visitor to ask: "Do you ever feel like you're not reaching your full potential?"
Inspired, I capture this picture of one of Kapoor's outdoor steel works, which warps London's skyline and those viewing it into wave-like reflections, from inside the gallery.
Framed by the rectangular window, with London's summer heat almost visible in the heavy skies, it feels aptly more like a modernist painting than a photograph.
My all-time favourite destination is … Iceland. I’ve done two trips there so far and never been somewhere so otherworldly and wildly eruptive. Diving there in the two-metre-deep Nesgja fissure, between the North American and Eurasian continental plates, in crystal-clear turquoise water, was unforgettable. At home, northern WA and the NT are my go-tos for serious adventures.
Next on my bucket list is … South America. The Atacama desert, the Amazon river, the Chilean fjords, the Andes mountains, the Galapagos islands, Patagonia. What a continent, can’t wait to see more of it.
My top travel tip is … Whatever your age, when you travel, challenge yourself to do something that you have never done before. It might be scary but you’ll remember it forever.
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