Documented artwork / walk-through sculptural maze
Pac-Lab
Credit as documented: Will Ryman
Will Ryman’s Pac-Lab invites visitors to choose their way through a sculptural maze of colored walls and passages. The 2017 work translates the structure of a video game maze into an outdoor installation at bodily scale. Ryman modeled the walls in clay before the final cast-resin, steel-and-paint work; their hand-shaped character contrasts with expectations of digital precision. Art Omi describes the primary colors as evoking childhood art-making and Piet Mondrian, and interprets the maze as a reflection on consumer culture and daily choices. The work was shown at Parc de La Villette in Paris in 2018 before its documented 2020 presentation at Art Omi’s Sculpture and Architecture Park in Ghent, New York.
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At a glance
- Year / version
- 2017
- Materials
- cast resin, steel, paint
- Documented setting
- outdoor
- Dimensions
- 4 ft H × 37.5 ft W × 50 ft D
- Dimensions apply to
- Dimensions on the artist’s Pac-Lab page; not independently measured or separately specified for each venue.
- Availability
- Unconfirmed
Places & versions
Installation history
Historical presentations. A past installation does not establish the current location or suitability for a new site.
March 22–September 16, 2018 artist exhibition listing
Parc de La Villette, Paris, France
2020; artist July 1–present listing, venue When July 21
Sculpture and Architecture Park, Art Omi, Ghent, New York
Materials and construction
Ryman publishes dimensions of 4 feet high, 37.5 feet wide and 50 feet deep. The artist lists the Art Omi presentation from July 1, 2020 to present; Art Omi’s dedicated page instead gives July 21, 2020 in its When section. This source discrepancy is retained, without treating either date as an independently confirmed installation start or asserting current loan status.
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Sources
- artomi.org ↗ · Checked 2026-10-17
- www.willryman.com ↗ · Checked 2026-10-17