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Giant, rainbow hanging installation of 1,000 origami spheres, fish and boats

To celebrate the school summer holidays in 2015, the National Museum of Singapore launched an exhibition for children which included a bright and beautiful installation by French visual artist Mademoiselle Maurice. Suspended from the building's light and airy rotunda, the stunning hanging piece consisted of over a thousand colourful origami spheres, boats and planes – to celebrate Singapore's relationship with water.

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Overhead view of Mademoiselle Maurice's rainbow origami installation suspended in the National Museum of Singapore's rotunda, showing thousands of colourful paper spheres, boats and planes arranged in a radial pattern

Known internationally for her paper crafted street art, always in a kaleidoscope of colours, Mademoiselle Maurice's installations are inevitably temporary, and that makes them all the more appealing.

She adopted her unique style after living in Japan for a year, discovering the traditional Japanese art of paper folding. Today, her rainbow, origami artworks – made up of thousands of colourful shapes – can be found everywhere from San Francisco to Sweden, from Italy to Montreal. Discover more on her website.

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Mademoiselle Maurice's thousand-piece origami installation suspended from a domed rotunda ceiling, with colourful paper shapes transitioning from blue and pink through orange to green.
Mademoiselle Maurice's colourful origami installation suspended from a museum rotunda, featuring thousands of paper shapes in rainbow gradients from red, orange and yellow to green, blue and purple.
Overhead view of Mademoiselle Maurice's rotating rainbow origami installation suspended from the museum rotunda, with coloured paper shapes radiating outward in blue, red, yellow and green segments.
Mademoiselle Maurice's hanging installation of over 1,000 colourful origami spheres suspended from a museum rotunda, creating a rainbow gradient from green to red beneath ornate domed ceiling with skylights
Colourful origami shapes in red, pink, orange, yellow and green suspended from a white grid ceiling in Mademoiselle Maurice's installation at the National Museum of Singapore
Colourful origami shapes in red, pink, blue, yellow, orange and green suspended from a circular mesh frame hanging from a museum rotunda ceiling
Colourful origami spheres cascade downwards from a large oval mesh frame suspended in a white rotunda, creating a rainbow waterfall effect from red and orange through to blue and green
Colourful origami spheres, fish and boats in shades of red, pink, orange and blue suspended against a gridded cream background in Mademoiselle Maurice's installation
Overhead view of Mademoiselle Maurice's origami installation suspended from a rotunda, showing a circular grid filled with thousands of colourful paper shapes in a rainbow gradient from orange through red, pink, blue and green, cascading downward beneath
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