a limited edition Architectural Art Installation x Meditative Spaces At NOMAD Private Collection, Dubai, from 1-30 March
This pioneering visionary collaboration merges the digital realm with the physical world, bringing together Anotherview’s 24-hour ‘digital nomad window into another time and landscape’, and an immersive, meditative space inspired by a Japanese tearoom, designed and made by Nature Squared.
NOMAD Private Collection
Villa 2, 103 Jumeirah St, Jumeirah 1, Dubai
A new way of thinking about nature, materiality & culture
The digital ‘window’ reveals a day in the life of a mature banyan tree in Ranakpur, India, filmed continuously for 24 hours in the middle of the monsoon season. Banyan trees, which typically live for two to three hundred years and symbolise immortality, are the national tree of India.
“The outstanding inherent beauty of the tree attracted both people and a delightful menagerie of animals throughout the course of one day and night, so that we were able to paint a portrait of the daily life of a rural Rajasthani community”
Marco Tabasso, Anotherview co-founder
The Viewing Experience
VIEW 20: Transcendence builds upon its original incarnation shown at the Rossana Orlandi Gallery during Milan Design Week 2022, and at 5VIE, Milan in 2023. The current iteration, also designed by Nature Squared’s Chief Material Innovator, British-Chinese textile weaver and artist Elaine Yan Ling Ng, deepens the viewing experience by adding a tactile dimension, a frame that evokes the humble yet captivating natural world unfolding in the digital realm, and creating a meditative space made of sustainable materials.
THE ‘WINDOW’ FRAME
THE TEXTILES
ILIMITADA floor mats
Six handwoven abaca mats arranged on a crushed eggshell CArrelé tiled floor provide seating in the viewing area. To one side is the window of a counter where Moko’s Matcha Milano will prepare matcha tea for viewers, completing the mindful personal experience. Visitors to the gallery may reserve here one of several experiences, from meditation, and yoga to matcha tea.