This Hot Pink Room has a Patterned Wallpaper Comprising 5,000 Intact Bugs

Artist Jen­nifer Angus has cre­at­ed an instal­la­tion that might gross you out, but it’s sure to fas­ci­nate you! Called In the Gar­den, she has wall­pa­pered a hot pink-paint­ed room with a gor­geous tex­tured pat­tern that com­pris­es 5,000 (!!) bugs. She col­lect­ed the crit­ters from south­east Asia and arranged them on the wall with their nat­ur­al col­or­ing intact—think iri­des­cent greens, blues, and pearly mauves.  The crea­tures form skull shapes and oth­er dec­o­ra­tive motifs and take over a room in the new­ly-ren­o­vat­ed Ren­wick Gallery at the Smith­son­ian Amer­i­can Art Muse­um. (This space offi­cial­ly opens on Novem­ber 13.)

Jen­nifer­’s piece is one of nine art­works in Won­der, the inau­gur­al exhi­bi­tion of the Ren­wick Gallery. In addi­tion to her bugs, the oth­er artists will each occu­py a dif­fer­ent gallery in the build­ing and turn their space into a room-size instal­la­tion.  I’m not far from its loca­tion in Wash­ing­ton, DC, so I’m going to pop in one week­end and check it out. Fun! (Via design­boom)