Walk with W A S D or the arrow keys, turn with the left and right arrows, press E to read the label of the work in front of you. The list of works button opens every label as text.
A permanent exhibition in six rooms
The Writing on the Wall
Works that have been in plain sight for some time. Please take your time. There is, we are assured, plenty of it.
Unpacking the typefaces
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Left thumb to walk, drag right side to look, tap a work to read its label.
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The galleries need JavaScript and WebGL. Until then, the rooms are described below.
About the exhibition
The Writing on the Wall is a first-person museum you walk through in the browser. Six galleries open one into the next, from an immaculate lobby to a flooded banquet hall. Each room is a little further gone than the last, and the 67 wall labels remain relentlessly cheerful about it.
- Lobby. Immaculate. Please do not read the walls.
- Room I, Everything Is Fine. Climate, presented as décor: the rising line, the ice that performs its own disappearance.
- Room II, Growth. Debt and the economy: a line that only goes up, through the ceiling; the scheme; the bubble.
- Room III, Terms & Conditions. The fine print, venerated: a scroll that never stops unrolling.
- Room IV, The Feast. Daniel 5 in a dark, flooded hall. The writing appears (מנא מנא תקל ופרסין), the museum paints it out, the water remembers.
- Room V, Exit Through the Gift Shop. The building is failing; the shop is open. The exit door does not open.