Kuru Kuru World is a pop art exhibition at the Musei di Roma Capitale, by Japanese artist Mikati Slade. An immersive, phantamagoric series of neon tubes, faintly static noises, and 8-bit characters float and rotate around in a beautiful light show. If you liked the opening to Enter the Void, you'll like this too.
From the notecard: "Kuru kuru" [Japanese expression used to describe rotation]. Kuru Kuru World is about the cyclical nature of human history and civilization. Different parts of this art exhibit describe the development, destruction, and rebirth of human life and societal systems. The exhibit is built using 8-bit console game pixel graphics, primitive symbols of today's technology.
Entering some of the rooms is like entering a piece of graphic design, where colours are solid and bold, and no shadows are cast. Although there are no interactive elements here, there are many different rooms to explore, in which you can pretend to be a small thing, awed by the strange and bright lights.
