Photos of People’s Heads in Miniature Models of Famous Galleries

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Put Your Head Into Gallery,” is an unusual interactive art project by Tbilisi, Georgia-based artist Tezi Gabunia. After creating realistic small-scale models of famous rooms in art galleries, Gabunia and his collaborators put them on display and invited visitors to his exhibition to pose with their heads inside the tiny spaces. The resulting photos show giant heads peering into well-known art galleries.

Mini replicas were made of the following four spaces: Saatchi Gallery (Tezi Gabunia), The Louvre (Rubens), Tate Modern (Hirst), and Gagosian Gallery (Liechtenstein). The models were created with laser cutting and consisted of PVC, plexiglass, wooden paper, and glue.

“The project also involves exhibitions of different artists in above-mentioned spaces,” Gabunia writes. “Transportable feature of the models makes these galleries accessible for everyone. Moreover, anyone can look into gallery, take a photo and become an exhibit.”

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Here’s a behind-the-scenes video showing visitors lining up to have their face photos taken inside the little galleries:

Here are some of the photos that resulted (you can find the complete albums here and here):

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(via Tezi Gabunia via Laughing Squid)


Credits: Concept by Tezi Gabunia, Ucha Urushadze, Nika Maisuradze, Dato Tsanava. Photography by Andro Eradze, Saba Shengelia, Chipo Pelicano, Giorgi Machavariani, and Ani Beridze.

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