SONAE × Lichtenstein · Colombo Tour
A 3D capture of SONAE's Roy Lichtenstein exhibition at Colombo Shopping Mall — built so a pop-art moment, hosted in a public space, didn't end when the walls came down.
Bringing Roy Lichtenstein into a shopping mall is the kind of cultural gesture that, by design, has a deadline. The works arrive, the room is built around them, the public walks through — and then the install is over, the prints fly home, the room reverts to retail.
The brief, when stripped back: preserve the visit. Not the catalogue, not the press photos — the walk itself.
Scanned with the show still up.
Matterport Pro capture across the full exhibition footprint — every wall, every plinth, every Ben-Day-dot edge as it sat on opening week. The shoot ran with gallery lighting on and the room empty of crowd, so the Lichtensteins read the way the curator wanted them to read.
Walkable, not viewable.
The output isn't a 360° viewer or a slideshow. It's a navigable space — visitors choose their own route, linger where they want, pull in close on a single print, step back across the room. Closer to a museum visit than a brochure scroll.
Linkable down to the work.
Each piece has its own anchor URL. Press writes about a specific print? Link directly to it. Educators build a route through the show? Share the path. The exhibition becomes a citable artefact, indexable on the open web.
The exhibition closed on schedule. The tour didn't. It still gets opened by people who missed the run, embedded in articles about the show, and walked end-to-end by anyone curious enough to spend ten minutes inside a pop-art moment that, technically, no longer exists.