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Antony Gormley’s virtual reality adventure lets you ski on the moon

Best known for his figures celebrating the human form, Antony Gormley’s latest endeavour is an epic virtual reality project letting you fly through space

Space 27 March 2019
moon surface
Amazing voyage: skate round lunar crater rims or crash into craters

Antony Gormley, stills from Lunatick, 2019, courtesy of Antony Gormley Studio and Acute Art

By Simon Ings

Lunatick by Antony Gormley and Priyamvada Natarajan, from Acute Art, The Store X, London, 5 – 25 April

VISIT The Store X, a venue for art and design in London’s West End, and you are in for quite a journey. Wearing an HTC Vive headset, you are given an island to explore in Lunatick, a glossy, game-like virtual-reality experience that starts at Kiribati in Micronesia. For a while, you have the run …

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