Psycho Buildings Made by Artists Gone Wild

Over the summer I visited the Psycho Buildings exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London. Ten artists from around the world designed architectural environments to transform Hayward’s exterior and interior in celebration of the gallery’s 40th anniversary. Truly fascinating. Three of my favorites:

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Installation by Austrian art collective Gelitin. You can go rowing on Hayward’s roof in an odd wooden boats floating in 4 feet of water. The water is the same level as the existing wall so it looks as though you can paddle right off the edge (although you won’t!) while viewing London’s beautiful view.

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Installation by Rachel Whiteread. Made up of 250 eerie doll houses, each illuminated by a single light bulb, shown in Britain for the first time. Feels like you’re in some sort of spooky fantasyland.

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Installation by Do Ho Suh. Inspired by The Wizard of Oz, this is a house crash of the artist’s Korean childhood traditional home in Seoul into the 4-storey New York apartment building. The interior is unreal, with over 2,000 miniaturized components! The attention to detail is incredibly lifelike – from furniture to cereal boxes, clothes and novels, FedEx boxes on the hall table and scattered dollar bills on the floor.