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New York based Aakash Nihalani is a master with tape, using it to create eye-catching optical illusions. Born in 1986 in Queens and currently based in Brooklyn, Nihalani was dazzled when he first came across the minimalist urban architecture of a major city, describing it as “big boxes, filled with smaller boxes – an endless network of cubes.” Nihalani’s work reacts to the spaces many of us encounter everyday. “I came upon tape sort of by accident,” he tells us. “I had a painter’s roll that I was using to stick some screen prints on wall for a student exhibition. There was a pedestal in the space that was casting a shadow on the floor that matched the shapes I was using in my prints, so I instinctively outlined the shadow with the tape in my hand.”
