The World Has Gone Pear Shaped
Large Scale Installation
This giant installation art is a playful take on the dystopias of our time. It asks: Where are we now? What have we done to the earth? And what possible futures do we want to create?
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 project plays upon the popular descriptive idiom pear shaped that is typically used to describe when something has gone wrong or needs immediate attention; in this case, our planet. highlights how humankind is altering the Earth by creating a 6-meter-tall inflatable sculpture of our planet morphed into a pear, using NASA open-source 3D high-resolution images of planet Earth—with many details of our beautiful planet visible.
Seeing our planet floating in space gave us a new perspective on ourselves. But we need a new perspective on the planet! Can we change our relationship with our planet and get it back into shape?
