Reflection Room

source: flynntalbot
Reflection Room is an immersive, coloured light experience that will be the first London Design Festival installation to be housed in the V&A Museum’s Prince Consort Gallery. The vaulted space is lit at each end to highlight and define the dramatic 35m length of the gallery, its ceiling structure and the audience walking within. It is illuminated with my signature of complementary blue and orange lighting, and large gloss black Barrisol panels are used to expand the width of the space, offering a fragmented view of shifting colours, reflections and light.

Reflection Room is a completely site-specific work. I conceived the idea standing in the gallery, and wanted to add my story on top of the beautiful existing architecture but not to take it over. I wanted to add to its beauty and to exhibit in a new way with an abstracted view of the existing cabinets and amazing ceiling structure. With all of my work I want to create new experiences using light that build a connection between people and place.

Reflection Room uses 56 custom-made stretch membrane Barrisol panels in gloss black. Fitted within the panels, at each end of the room, are light columns in orange and blue, a combination of colours that creates a certain magic. The resulting play of verticals serves to transform the space into a vivid hall of coloured light. The visitors are an integral part of installation. Each person will be lit in a unique way of depending on where they are standing, adding to the rich depth of reflections within the gallery.

Flynn Talbot (*1981) is an Australian lighting artist and designer based in London, UK. Talbot creates lighting installations and commissioned pieces for galleries and unique buildings along with innovative lighting products for serial production.

Talbot’s starting point is always the same for each project. He begins with the consideration of the “light effect” and constructs each project around it. Every decision and detail is made with the quality of light and user connection in mind. Talbot does not believe in being bound by style, material or form. This method creates a timeless quality and a strong point of difference in his work.