Visiting Lost In Light in Shoreditch

I recently went to the Lost In Light exhibition in Shoreditch. It is five rooms of light and sound installations by Squidsoup in a sparsely furnished ex-warehouse sort of space on Curtain Road.

You have to buy a timed ticket, and as a useful tip, they say entry after 3pm is reserved for adults only, whereas earlier in the day children are welcome, and that there may be some crossover after 3pm if groups with kids haven’t left. I must confess I went at 3.30pm and had vastly under-estimated the number of people who would have been using it as a quite expensive sensory room for the kids and would still be there. As a parent I have every sympathy with trying to keep babies and toddlers occupied, and it was lovely and funny hearing kids enjoy and react to the colours and sounds, but I imagine I would have had a rather different experience if I had gone a bit later.

As you progress through the exhibition I would say the installations get more intense, with one of them being particularly bright and at times difficult to look at.

It was the final room that made the visit worthwhile for me. Set to a soundtrack that included some work by Four Tet, this one you could walk through and actually, once you were standing inside it, it really affected your perception of light and sound, and was genuinely very very trippy. Worth the money alone.