Unknown Amazon, British Museum
Year: 2001
Project Description: Part of team with lead exhibition designers At Large
Contract sum: £150,000
Designed with exhibition designers At Large, Unknown Amazon was open in the British Museum (London) from October 2001 to April 2002. Conceived as a non-representational, immersive environment, the installation space was vertically symmetrical around the eye level of the viewer. This reproduced through the physical experience of the visitor, the cosmology of the Amazonian peoples. In this cosmology, there is a time based rotational symmetry in the social space, from day to night. At night, the sky is read as ground, forest branches are read as roots, and the Milky Way as the River Amazon. These symmetries figure many of the objects on display.
