Rain Room Installation Defies Physics

 

Welcome to the rain room. 

If you have made your way to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to experience any of 

their interactive art installations, you can see that there 

is a growing popularity in these types of installation pieces.

It is like a surreal rain shower in an office space – the rain comes from a '70s style panelled ceiling, but we are in the dark. In another way it is as if you were being ‘caught’ in the rain – not by the rain itself but by a huge spotlight shining at you in the darkness.
Designers Stuart Wood, Florian Ortkrass and Hannes Koch of Random International, a London-based collective, have used cameras to map the bodily movements of people within the shower, so the rain droplets stop falling wherever you are.
The idea that you can walk through a room-sized deluge without getting wet is like some kind of fantasy.
The Curve, Barbican, London EC2, until March 3. www.barbican.org.uk 

 

Here are some more images from the show that I was interested in. 

Love the use of negative space!