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Leaving Lavandia 2020 creates an impression of virtual reality and digitality through various materials such as mirrors, reflective plastics and light. The installation is a sophisticated visual trick and appears to be a shaft running infinitely up and down. Leaving Lavandia 2020 deals with a modern myth from 1996, which states that numerous Japanese children who reached a certain level in the video game Pokemon (set in the city of Lavandia), would hear a special tune of music play – thus provoking the desire to commit suicide. Allegedly, the melody and certain frequencies that arose at this stage of the video game caused the children to throw themselves off buildings. Although never proven, the melody was nevertheless altered. Within the installation the original sound plays in an endless loop.