Julian Hoeber’s Disorienting “Gravitational Mystery Spot” Architecture Pops Up in New York

It takes a lot to faze a New Yorker, but <a href="http://www.blumandpoe.com/artists/julian-hoeber">Julian Hoeber's</a> trippy "gravitational mystery spots" might just do the trick. Hoeber recently brought his Demon Hill #2, a room designed to give inhabitants a sense of uneasiness and vertigo to the Chelsea galleries of Harris Lieberman, and people are already lining up to experience it. The first Demon Hill architecture exhibition <a href="http://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/detail/exhibition_id/189">at the Hammer Museum</a> in Los Angeles attracted a record-breaking 17,000 visitors, so we anticipate that the sequel is a must-see.

Julian Hoeber is presenting his work in New York for the first time

Mimicking "gravitational mystery spots" which claim to have supernatural powers, Demon Hill #2 creates vertigo in visitors

The plywood box has a metal frame that puts the room at a disorienting tilt

The chair and pinched wall are all made of plywood, which has a dizzying pattern

Once inside the room, it's hard to know what's up and what's down

The trick of architecture used to create this affect is unveiled, though it doesn't lessen the impact at all