Sixties-style graphics, mirrored hallways and hysterical laughter are intended to confuse those navigating their way through this labyrinthine installation, which designer Rafael de Cárdenas has built inside car brand Cadillac's Lower Manhattan gallery.

The Amaze installation is located in Cadillac House ? a venue where the luxury company hosts public activities beyond the automotive industry ? and was organised in collaboration with New York arts publications Visionaire.

Locally based Rafael de Cárdenas designed the set as four rooms, with each using different methods to dazzle and disorientate like a house of horrors. Artist, composer and vocalist Sahra Motablebi has composed an accompanying sound score of voices to suit the different spaces.
"Amaze bridges the otherworldly and the mundane, the drab and the hyper-chromatic," said the team. "Each room of the labyrinthine installation stirs with life, woven with uncanny echoes, shifting perceptions, and hidden doorways that subtly scramble the coordinates of space and time."

First up, a low-pitched sound plays in a cylindrical volume surrounded by a metal chain curtain at the maze's entrance.
The next space is a bright yellow hall lined with mirrors, which make it appear to be much larger than it is and suggest spaces that don't exist. British set designer Es Devlin and American artist John Miller have similarly used mirrors to further disorientate visitors to their mazes.

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