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Magical Rain Room-an inspiration day in London - The Squid Stories
Each 6 months when I travel to the London trend seminar Futurelab, we use our free morning to check out a new gallery, a must see exhibition or a secret spot. Last year we all ready discovered The White Chapel and a top expo of the crazy, delicious Japanese artist Kusama at Tate Modern, so we sat standard high. I read two days ago about the opening of the London Rain Room at The Curve at the Barbican. We arrived at 10 am, and as the event is so new, the queue was very reasonable. (Not anymore, check end of this post) The miraculous ‘rain room’ is a technical wonder by contemporary art studio Random International and uses 2,500 litres of water, falling at 1,000 litres per minute. Entering the room was surreal! Imagine a black, dark hall way, follow the light and the rain sounds and enter a magical space where only the rain is present. Bernard Polet and Kate Stockman ready to hit the rain, or not. “I stepped …