Installation Decorates Hotel Room With An Interactive Wooden Skyline

It's often the case that you'll see a work of art in an exhibition space and spend a good half hour or so in its company, but it's not often that you'll spend the night with it. But that's what you'll be doing with a new work from French collective Architectural Visual Exciterscalled SKÖ.

The piece sees the group redesigning a guest room at the Au Vieux Panier hotel in Marseille—which features various rooms decorated by different graphic designers and artists—into an immersive and interactive rest space. The rooms are each a veritable work of art themselves -- you may remember this graffiti room, which made quite a spash last year:

Mixing high and low tech it uses wood, which hovers over the bed, to project patterns onto so you can lie back and have your very own light show—and don't be too worried about the wood falling on top of you either, it's all part of the experience.

"The troglodytic morphology of the room imposes a total confidence in the artist since the ton of wood hanging directly above you initially launches you into a state of claustrophobia." the group says. "But the magic starts to sink in with the olfactive aspect and sense of lightness of those wooden masses as they are suspended in a way that allows light to pierce through."

The installation paradoxically appears both light and heavy. It initially appears as a huge compact mass of wooden blocks, but the different individual lengths are accentuated by a video mapping system. So while the wood might be heavy, the installation itself appears to float, transformed by the projections into something more ethereal.

The piece is also interactive and with the help of a touchpad guests can interact with this wooden sky forest, controlling the animations, patterns, and colors.

You can check out a video of the piece below:

Images courtesy of Josselin Fouché / AnAis et Pedro