Art can make you experience new places if you actively participate and enter inside the frame. At BildMuseet in Umeå a piece by Thilo Frank is really making visitors interact and communicating their experiences visually.The installation that makes visitors wait in line to enter is called The Phoenix is closer than it appears from 2010. It is a room of made of mirrors and light, and inside there is a silver colored swing so you can get a sense of weightlessness movement in this open/closed space. Only one visitor at a time is allowed to be inside the box, otherwise the impact of the installation would be lost. For more info and images of this piece (the exhibition will unfortunately end already on Sunday) visit: http://www.bildmuseet.umu.se/en/exhibition/thilo-frank/12043

I had the chance of walking into this quite magical space earlier this week. It was like being inside of both Dante's Paradisio and the Matrix at the same time. Beautiful like a jewel and a bit scary in the sense that the usual points of orientation is lost. All that is reflected is light and you - many, many versions of you (and I do not think that is what is expected of Paradisio). The perception of the installation is based on movement, the impression changes if you walk around, sit or swing. I noticed how my movements became slower in order to really see and experience what happened because of my motions. And I was very cautious on the swing, not ready to leave solid ground completely.

All visitors before me were leaving the installation smiling, and I probably did this as well. Why? Maybe it is just the new experience, both unique and something we want to share with others (check out "Thilo Frank" at Instagram — it will turn all green from all photos from visitors of BildMuseet), full of light, clean and magical. It is a space that I probably will return to as a memory of a moment and a special place I have visited — making it a new point of reference.