Climbing a wall without leaving the ground

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]You don't need nine lives to scale this vertigo-inducing structure. Leandro Erlich's Batimore series transforms a city facade into a disorienting optical illusion. A full-scale exterior, complete with balconies, windows, and street-level details, is laid flat on the floor, while a massive mirror is suspended above at roughly a 45° angle.

[00:00:21]As visitors move across the surface, their reflections make them appear to climb walls, hang from ledges, or stand perpendicular to the structure, turning ordinary movement into the illusion of defying gravity.