The World Has Gone Pear Shaped
Large Scale Installation
A 6-metre inflatable sculpture of Earth—reimagined as pear-shaped. Created using NASA satellite images, the artwork playfully explores the idiom that suggests things have gone wrong.
Created by
Tine Bech Studio
Co-commissioned by Light Night Leeds, and Illuminate Oldham
Presented at
Light Night Leeds 2023
Nightfall 2023
Nottingham Light Night 2024
Illuminate Oldham 2024
Illuminate Adelaide, Australia, 2024
This 6-meter (19.6 feet) tall inflatable sculpture was created with NASA photos of earth.
Love this piece, I saw it at daytime and it looked good against the blue sky so came back to see it lit up."Audience at Light Night Leeds 2023
The World Has Gone Pear Shaped is a playful reflection on today’s ecological crises, rooted in the English idiom of the same name. It asks: Where are we now? What have we done to the Earth? And what futures do we want to create?
The artwork’s use of NASA’s open-source, high-resolution 3D satellite imagery, captures the details of our beautiful world.
The view of Earth from space shifted our understanding of ourselves. Those astronaut photos became some of the most iconic images of the 20th century. But we need a new perspective on the planet itself. Can we change course and restore our relationship with Earth?
