One of the missions of Mind/Matter: The Neuroscience of Perception, Attention and Memory, a new exhibition at the Peabody Museum, is to get us to notice what we do and don’t notice. It does this both by fooling us, e.g. using concave mirrors to create a false floating object, and enlightening us, e.g. triggering a literal blind spot we didn’t know we had.
Given that the show soon had me seeing things it didn’t even intend to highlight—phenomena created by the very infrastructure of the exhibition—I’d say it was a mission well accomplished.
Written and photographed by Dan Mims.
