A virtual room modelled on a real Trafalgar Square gallery — red damask, marbled columns, 1876 in Roman numerals over the door — where the far doorway opens onto white space and the paintings drift free of their walls. Ben Okri introduces it and sound artist Nick Ryan built the soundscape. The whole thing is built to slow you down rather than move you through, and it works alone or as something to talk through with somebody else.
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