Roof of the winds

A multisensory installation that aims to reimagine the experience of a mountain valley within London’s vertical landscape. A slowly turning ceiling sculpture—made from transparent tarpaulin threaded with a salvaged white scaffolding grid—softens the glare of an industrial bay light to cast shifting patterns of brightness across the room. Four wall-mounted sound sculptures, each resonating with recordings captured atop the city’s tallest buildings, diffuse a polyphonic soundscape whose volumes rise and fall with the changing light. Their proportions mirror those of the skyscrapers they sonify, transforming the dense hum of the city into a hi-fi-like auditory terrain. On the floor, a small “fan speaker” translates live sound into gentle air currents, feeding back into the rotation above and creating a self-modulating loop between wind, light, and sound. Drawing on René Daumal’s writings on mountains and imperceptible forces, the installation evokes a sense of place shaped by memory, altitude, and sensory thresholds—suggesting an urban “valley” where the familiar and the uncanny continuously intertwine.