Net installation

Design: Numen Exhibitet: House for Contemporary Art Z33 / 02.07. – 02.10.2011. Hasselt, Belgium Text, photos & videos: Numen Net consists of multiple layers of flexible nets suspended in the air. The flat layers of the net are subsequently connected to one another on counterpoints thus forming a “floating landscape” open for visitors to […]

austria's architekturforum tirol hosts an interactive installation by numen/for use constructed of stitched safety nets, which suspend in and around the surrounding surfaces of the generous gallery space.

Visitors to an Austrian museum transcend the exhibition space on a steep black staircase constructed from layers of net, by Numen/For Use.

net on floor with stratigic pick up points hung to create tent..

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Artist collective Numen creates giant web installations from tape or string that are strung up in museums around the world for visitors to interact with.

Image 2 of 10 from gallery of Atelier YokYok Designs an Enchanting String Installation in Cahors. In the Center of the Volume. Image Courtesy of Atelier YokYok + Ulysse Lacoste

In the late 1990s artist Janet Echelman traveled to India as a Fulbright Scholar with the intention of giving painting exhibitions around the country. She shipped her painting supplies ahead of time and landed in the fishing village of Mahabalipuram to begin her exhibitions with one major hitch: the painting supplies never arrived. While walking through the village Echelman was struck by the quality and variety of nets used by the local fisherman and questioned what it might look like if…