A l’occasion du London Design Festival, les designers Laetitia de Allegri et Matteo Fogale ont imaginé un projet immersif au coeur du Victoria & Albert Museum de Londres. Du 17-25 September 2016, les visiteurs qui se rendront au Victoria & Albert Museum pourront découvrir Mise-en-abyme, un projet des designers Laetitia de Allegri et Matteo Fogale. Cette installation consistera en un tunnel composé de plaques en verre tinté qui conduira les visiteurs dans un jeu de lumière immersif. Fascinated by the discovery of one-point perspective during the Renaissance period, the duo created a landscape of overlapping semi-transparent shapes that played with the viewers sense of perspective. The title of the work is a French term that literally translates as “placed into abyss”, and refers to the experience of walking through the installation. The grout lines of the tiles lining the bridge represented the perspective grid lines found on Renaissance drawings, creating an illusion of exaggerated depth that drew the viewer into the work. Each tile featured a custom pattern of gradating colour that made the landscape across the bridge appear to open outward or to close inward, depending on the visitor’s point of view. Contrasting with the pale interiors of the surrounding galleries and the creamy marble sculptures within them, the designers created an explosion of coloured acrylic panels layered across the length of the bridge. These bright semi-transparent panels also referenced the V&A’s colourful glass and stained glass collections displayed in nearby galleries. As visitors moved across the bridge, they passed through increasingly small openings in these panels, a literal interpretation of perspective translated to three-dimensional space that offered an immersive experience. “We wanted to create an abstract installation with a strong visual effect that is light and floating, in contrast to the heavy marble surroundings in these galleries,” said the designers. “Mise-en-abyme is not just something to look at. It is something to experience.”