Name: OBSTACLE
Start: 2026-05-22T08:00:00
End: 2026-06-13T13:00:00
Location: Barangaroo

Surrender to OBSTACLE, a multi-sensory monolith cutting through Barangaroo’s boardwalk.Stretching 45 metres left-to-right, OBSTACLE stands as one of...

Location:

Exchange Place and Wulugul Walk
2000 NSW
Australia

Price:

Free

Artist Details

REELIZE STUDIO

Reelize Studio is a Naarm/Barcelona-based collective working at the intersection of light, technology, and immersive storytelling. The studio creates large-scale public installations that blend sculptural form with cutting-edge digital systems — transforming space into interactive, multi-sensory experiences that explore themes of identity, memory, and connection.

With a practice rooted in both concept and craft, Reelize Studio draws on architecture, sound, AI, and human interactivity to shape artworks that are visually striking and philosophically layered. Their work often engages with scientific ideas — from molecular structures to quantum theory — reinterpreting them through light and spatial design to provoke awe and reflection.

Reelize’s installations have been featured at major festivals across Australia and internationally, including Vivid Sydney, Amsterdam Light Festival, White Night, and Melbourne Music Week. Known for their precise execution and evocative environments, the studio works across both immersive walk-through pieces and iconic landmark-scale works designed to be viewed from afar.

Collaborating with a network of engineers, sound designers, and media artists, Reelize produces works that invite audiences to not just witness light, but to feel encoded within it.

Event Details

Surrender to OBSTACLE, a multi-sensory monolith cutting through Barangaroo’s boardwalk.

Stretching 45 metres left-to-right, OBSTACLE stands as one of Vivid Sydney’s long installations ever. Both a barrier and beacon, these blocks of luminous mesh create a hypnotic corridor, as patterns glow, flow and glide across its screens, synced to a radiant soundtrack.

Move alongside, through and beyond OBSTACLE towards your next Vivid Light Walk adventure — a reminder than a perceived roadblock is often a source of exploration, creativity and momentum.

Liked OBSTACLE? Head to Tumbalong Park to catch Voxelevated, another installation from Melbourne design studio REELIZE.

This activation contains bright lights, lasers, colour changes and occasional flashing effects. These may be triggering for individuals with photosensitive epilepsy, sensory sensitivities, or conditions affected by intense visual stimuli.

If you are sensitive to these effects, please use caution when approaching the area and step back if you feel uncomfortable.

Country represented by installation: Australia

Access and Inclusion

Audio Described Audio Described - Audio description is a service provided for patrons who are blind or have low vision. Trained audio describers give live, objective, verbal descriptions.
Features Audio Features Audio - The event features audio.
Intense Lighting Effects Intense Lighting Effects - The event features intense lighting effects.
Wheelchair Accessible Wheelchair Accessible - Access to the venue is suitable for wheelchairs (toilets, ramps/lifts etc.) and designated wheelchair spaces are available.

OBSTACLE

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REELIZE STUDIO

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-33.861257, 151.200571

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OBSTACLE

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REELIZE STUDIO

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-33.861257, 151.200571

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