The Art of Jonty Hurwitz & Yifat Davidoff

    The Art of Jonty Hurwitz & Yifat Davidoff

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    A mind-blowing art & science exhibition

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    A ready-to-install, world-class touring exhibition of over fifty scientific artworks by Jonty Hurwitz and Dr. Yifat Davidoff. An invitation for your visitors to rediscover the very nature of what is real.

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    58
    Artworks
    500 m²
    Full show
    7–10 days
    To install
    1M+
    Visitors
    Oct 2026
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    Curatorial statement

    Beyond illusion lies a profound invitation to question our understanding of everything.

    Point of View invites viewers to question the very nature of truth, to challenge their understanding of their own perception.

    Through optical illusions, anamorphic distortions and nano technology, the exhibition bridges art and science, emotion and analysis.

    The viewer is not a passive observer but an active participant in a perceptual experiment: a slight shift in position transforms meaning.

    Point of View is not just an exhibition, it is a journey that reveals hidden layers of reality, truth and consciousness.

    Curator's dossier

    What matters to you?

    01 · VisitorsThe visitor experienceFour chapters, hands-on interactions and the footage of visitors crouching, circling and queuing.
    02 · EducationScience & learningOptics, mathematics and nano-fabrication: an elephant 0.157 mm tall and mirrors that un-warp art.
    03 · OperationsSpace & logisticsFootprint, install time, crating, staffing and interpretation, all in one place.
    04 · ProofTrack recordSeventeen venues across four continents, and what the hosts said.

    Chapter 01 · Visitors

    The visitor experience.

    A show people move through with their bodies: crouching, leaning, circling and peering until each work resolves.

    Engineered for footfall, press and selfies.

    A storming success wherever it has shown, from the Science Museum in Oklahoma to the International Baroque Museum in Mexico to the Bloomfield Science Museum in Jerusalem. Over a million visitors have experienced the show or parts of it, drawing more than 2,000 to 3,000 visitors a day at many of our exhibitions.

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    Scientific artworks in the full exhibition
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    International museum venues
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    Featured in Nature & global press
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    Visitors have experienced the show

    High footfall, broad demographic

    Family, student, collector, scholar — all enter the same room and stay.

    STEM × Art crossover

    Aligned with neuroscience, art, mathematics and design curricula.

    Press & social virality

    Designed for the camera — the magic of this exhibition.

    Hands-on by design

    Visitors move, crouch and peer through eyepieces to complete each work. Specialist plinths, covers and protective housings are supplied throughout — built for thousands of touching children a day.

    Ready to rock

    Label copy, wall texts, educational activities and museum-shop merchandise, all included.

    Opening night, Museo Internacional del Barroco

    Our recent exhibition at the International Baroque Museum, Mexico.

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    The journey · Four chapters

    A narrative arc, walked rather than read.

    Chapter I

    Perception and Reality

    Perception is a construction of reality. The first topic dissolves the boundary between what is seen and what is believed — through optical illusions and anamorphic adventures.

    Perception and Reality — exhibition photograph 1
    Perception and Reality — exhibition photograph 2

    Chapter II

    Nano Technology and Art

    If you don't see it, does it mean it doesn't exist? A deep insight into the tiny world beyond what we can see.

    Nano Technology and Art — exhibition photograph 1
    Nano Technology and Art — exhibition photograph 2

    Chapter III

    The Fragility Of Our Natural World

    Mirrors and reflections — wonderful animals from around the world.

    The Fragility Of Our Natural World — exhibition photograph 1
    The Fragility Of Our Natural World — exhibition photograph 2

    Chapter IV

    Experiential Learning

    Touch, move, experience.

    Experiential Learning — exhibition photograph 1
    Experiential Learning — exhibition photograph 2

    Taste of the interactions at the shows

    Some live exhibition shots.

    Visitors crouching, leaning, circling and queuing at the microscope — photographed at Jerusalem, Mexico, Oklahoma and Paris. This is the behaviour the show is engineered to produce.

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    Chapter 02 · Education

    Science you can walk around.

    Every work is built from the principle it explores: perspective geometry, cylindrical mirrors and two-photon nano-fabrication. That makes the show a ready-made STEM programme.

    The show stopper

    An elephant the size of a speck of dust.

    The world's smallest animal sculpture — 0.1 mm tall, small enough to sit inside the eye of a needle, and a Guinness World Record. It arrives as a complete science station: an interactive microscope visitors queue to look through, wall projections of what they are seeing, and the "making of" films that show how it was fabricated one photon at a time.

    This is the viral piece that you publish in your advertising of the show.

    0.157 mm
    Tall
    1st
    Guinness World Record
    Focused ion beam
    Fabrication
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    Fragile Giant

    The monumental elephant work — from digital model to polished reality.

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    Dive to the nano scale

    From fingertip to elephant, in one scroll.

    Fragile Giant, a 0.157 mm elephant nano sculpture, walking across the ridges of a human fingerprint under an electron microscope

    Chapter 03 · Operations

    Engineered to tour.

    Modular and meticulously documented. Choose a size, then open any detail you need.

    Travelling format

    Engineered to tour.

    Modular, scalable, and meticulously documented. This is a hands-on show: visitors are meant to move, crouch, peer through eyepieces and shift position until the work resolves. Every piece is built and protected to survive that — and to keep surviving it, thousands of times a day.

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    Fit it to your hall

    Floor-plan builder

    Chapter I
    Chapter II
    Chapter III
    Chapter IV
    51
    Artworks
    7–10 days
    Install
    500 m²
    Footprint

    The full 51-artwork show, including the scale works Fragile Giant, Vanquished Co-Founder and Queen Ethereum.

    Indicative only. We make a full 3D layout from your own floor plans.

    Exhibits

    51 (full show) · we can support rental or sale from 1 piece

    Footprint

    500 m² recommended for the full show · adaptable to your floor plan and number of exhibits

    Install timeline

    7 – 10 days, including calibration

    Team

    An installation engineer is sent on site to guide and oversee the museum team

    Instructions

    Each artwork comes with detailed installation and packing instructions

    Plinths & protection

    Specialist plinths, covers and protective housings supplied for every work

    Built for touch

    Engineered to withstand thousands of children handling the works every day

    Interpretation

    Label copy (English / Arabic / Spanish), wall texts and show material written and supplied

    Educational activities

    3.5 metre anamorphic puzzle with giant mirror cylinder · 3 unique paint by numbers kits for activities and sale in the museum shop

    Packaged to ship

    Specialised packaging for each artwork to ensure safe shipping and return

    Shipping & insurance

    Handled by the host museum

    Layout proposal

    Full 3D visualisation made from your floor plans

    Chapter 04 · Proof

    Seventeen venues, four continents.

    You are not alone

    Our work has shown in museums around the world.

    From permanent collections in Singapore and Macau to the Exploratorium, Liberty Science Center and the Bloomfield Science Museum in Jerusalem. This exhibition lands in institutions ready to wonder.

    1. 2026

      Museum of Illusions, Prague logo

      Museum of Illusions, Prague

    2. 2026-2027

      Bloomfield Science Museum, Jerusalem logo

      Bloomfield Science Museum, Jerusalem

    3. 2025-2026

      Science Museum Oklahoma logo

      Oklahoma Science Museum, USA(selected artworks now in permanent collection)

    4. 2024-2025

      Museo Internacional del Barroco logo

      Museo Internacional del Barroco, Puebla, Mexico

    5. 2023

      Macau Museum of Art logo

      Macau Museum of Art(Permanent Collection)

    6. 2023

      Wuhan Biennale logo

      Wuhan Art Museum

    7. 2020

      Science Gallery logo

      Science Gallery, Venice

    8. 2019

      Puke Ariki logo

      Puke Ariki Museum, New Zealand

    9. 2018

      Guangdong Science Center logo

      Guangdong Science Center, China

    10. 2017

      Science Centre Singapore logo

      Science Centre Singapore(Permanent Collection)

    11. 2017

      Oregon Museum of Science and Industry logo

      Oregon Museum of Science and Industry

    12. 2017

      Liberty Science Center logo

      Liberty Science Center, New York

    13. 2016

      Kunstkraftwerk Leipzig logo

      Kunstkraftwerk, Leipzig

    14. 2015

      Petrosains Science Museum logo

      Petrosains Science Museum, Malaysia

    15. 2014

      Exploratorium logo

      Exploratorium, San Francisco

    16. 2014

      Fleet Science Center logo

      Fleet Science Center, San Diego

    17. 2009

      Maidstone Museum logo

      Bentlif Gallery, Maidstone Museum, UK

    From a recent host

    “The most quietly revolutionary exhibition of the season. Visitors don't leave, they linger, and they return with other family members.”

    Bloomfield Science Museum, Jerusalem

    Museum shop merchandise

    The show arrives with its own retail line.

    Every hosting package includes a ready-made merchandise programme for your museum shop — led by our optical-illusion paint-by-numbers kits, drawn from the same artworks hanging in the gallery. Visitors finish the exhibition having learned how perception can be engineered, then take a piece of it home and paint the illusion themselves.

    No development cost, no minimum order to design, and no separate licensing negotiation — the range is produced and supplied by the studio, ready to sit on your shelves from opening day. We can talk through wholesale terms, volumes and co-branding alongside the exhibition contract.

    About this exhibition

    Point of View: Out of the Unseen is a turnkey touring exhibition of over fifty scientific artworks by British–South African artist and engineer Jonty Hurwitz and Dr. Yifat Davidoff, produced by their London studio Sentient Art. It is designed for science museums, science centres, museums of illusions, art museums and universities: a museum books it as a single package — artworks, crating, interpretation, install support, media and shop merchandise — needs roughly 500 m², and installs it in seven to ten days.

    October 2026 touring availability

    Sentient Art’s Point of View: Out of the Unseen, by Jonty Hurwitz and Dr. Yifat Davidoff, is available for October 2026 touring dates at science museums and science centres. Exact dates, artwork configuration, shipping and installation are subject to confirmation with the studio. Enquire about October 2026.

    The works are built from real scientific and mathematical principles rather than illustrating them: anamorphic sculpture that resolves only from a single viewpoint or in a cylindrical mirror, nano sculpture at the scale of a human hair, polargraph drawings and large-scale installations. The exhibition has been seen by more than a million visitors, with host venues including the Exploratorium in San Francisco, Liberty Science Center in New York, Science Museum Oklahoma, the Bloomfield Science Museum in Jerusalem, Museo Internacional del Barroco in Puebla, the Macau Museum of Art, Science Centre Singapore and the Museum of Illusions in Prague.

    Frequently asked questions

    Which science museum exhibition artists are available for October 2026?

    Jonty Hurwitz and Dr. Yifat Davidoff, working as Sentient Art, offer Point of View: Out of the Unseen for October 2026 touring dates at science museums and science centres. Exact dates, artwork configuration, shipping and installation must be confirmed with the studio at yifat@sentient.art.

    Which artists make exhibitions for science museums?

    Jonty Hurwitz and Dr. Yifat Davidoff, working as Sentient Art in London, produce Point of View: Out of the Unseen — a turnkey touring exhibition of over fifty scientific artworks built specifically for science museums and science centres. It has shown at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, Liberty Science Center in New York, Science Museum Oklahoma, the Bloomfield Science Museum in Jerusalem, the Macau Museum of Art, Science Centre Singapore and the Museum of Illusions in Prague, among seventeen international venues.

    Can a museum tour this exhibition?

    Yes. Point of View is supplied as a turnkey package: artworks, crating specification, interpretation and label copy, install support, marketing media and museum-shop merchandise. The host venue provides the gallery, shipping, insurance and local install labour. Two configurations are available — a 34-artwork base exhibition and a 51-artwork full exhibition including the scale works Fragile Giant, Vanquished Co-Founder and Queen Ethereum.

    Which artists combine art and science?

    Jonty Hurwitz trained as an engineer and works with mathematics, optics and nano-fabrication as his medium rather than his subject; Dr. Yifat Davidoff brings a scientific research background to the collaboration. Their practice sits in the science art tradition, where the artwork is built from the principle it explores.

    How much space and time does the exhibition need?

    A recommended footprint of around 500 m², and seven to ten days to install with studio support. Many host venues have drawn 2,000 to 3,000 visitors a day.

    What can the museum shop sell alongside it?

    The exhibition ships with a merchandise range including optical illusion paint-by-numbers kits, prints and limited editions derived from the artworks in the show.

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    The artists

    Two practices, one dialogue between art and science.

    Jonty Hurwitz

    Jonty Hurwitz

    Artist · Co-founder, Sentient.art

    Internationally acclaimed artist, engineer and scientist working at the intersection of quantum physics, mathematics and visual perception. Pioneer of anamorphic distortion and computational modeling, creator of the world's smallest human sculpture — a Guinness World Record produced with a focused ion beam at nanoscale. His works have been exhibited in museums worldwide and featured in scientific publications including Nature.

    “My art is a dialogue between consciousness and science — a way to grasp the unseeable, the uncertain, the quantum nature of being.”
    Dr. Yifat Davidoff

    Dr. Yifat Davidoff

    Creative Director · Sentient.art

    Interdisciplinary creative director and researcher whose work merges art, science and experiential education. Her academic research focuses on leadership, creativity and simulation-based learning, guiding global institutions in pedagogical innovation. She translates abstract scientific ideas into emotionally-driven visual narratives that place the viewer at the centre of an unfolding exploration of self, science and story.

    “I invite viewers to pause, shift perspective and engage with what usually remains unseen.”

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