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A Romance of Many Dimensions
Pages from the book «Flatland : A Romance of Many Dimensions» by E. A. Abbott folded in Platonic solids
2008
exhibition view Invisible Parcours, IAC-Berlin Gallery

«Flatland : A Romance of Many Dimensions», novel written by Edwin A. Abbott in 1884, tells the story of a two dimensional world referred to as Flatland. The narrator (a square) guides us through some of the implications of life in two dimensions and the frightening concept of other dimensions.
Platonic solids (tetrahedron, hexahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron and icosahedron) are made from every pages of the book, bringing the third dimension by sacred geometry.