Moths aflutter at the top of the V&A

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12 April 2012

A new art installation launching tonight at the Victoria and Albert Museum resembles fluttering moths' wings — but involves an optical illusion.

Mat Collishaw's work, Magic Lantern, involves 108 metal moths and a strobe light, and is based on a 19th-century zoetrope device in which a series of rapidly changing pictures gives the impression of movement.

High in the open-sided cupola at the top of the museum, it is visible from Cromwell and Exhibition Roads and the V&A Café.

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