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Imagine walking through the rain deluge without getting wet. In fact, imagine having the rain part around you, as you walk through it. Fiction? Not quite! In the Curve at the Barbican Art Gallery, London a new installation by Random International is set, inviting people to – well, try to get wet. The ‘Rain Room’ is a hundred square meters downpour area, set at the end of a curving corridor and left intentionally dark to emphasize dramatic spotlight effect. Rain, as it should, falls vertically in straight shower lines.

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However, as the visitors step into the rain, it senses their bodies and moves around, closing behind them, creating a perfect cylindrical void, as The Guardian describes it, calling it a “startlingly surreal experience.”

The Rain Room is mapped by a series of cameras which create a 3D-map of the location of bodies, switching the water around them. It controls a total of 2,500 litres of water, falling at a rate of 1,000 litres per minute.

If you’re traveling to London, you can control the weather at the Barbican’s Curve gallery until March. Entry is free.