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“Time Loop,” an immersive multimedia exhibit that blends the natural environment with mesmerizing light installations and music, opens Sept. 3 2025 at the Crystal Bridges North Forest Trail and will extend through the fall and winter. The exhibit marks the second collaboration between Crystal Bridges and Klip Collective, a creative studio comprised of digital artists, sound designers, composers, creative producers, fabricators and technologists.

The exhibit boasts six installations across sections of the 1.4 mile long North Forest Trail loop, each distinct but all a meditation on impermanence, change and the flow of time. Each exhibit is a combination of lighting, sound, and projection mapping, a state-of-the-art projection technique that allows the Ozark wilderness to transform into a living canvas, and a technology that Klip Collective is closely associated with.

“The best thing that any artist can do is that they can transform the way that you see the world around you,” said Alejo Benedetti, Crystal Bridges Curator of Contemporary Art, who collaborated on the exhibits. “When it’s a space you know well and get to see it anew, that’s a special thing.”

“Time Loop” was created with particular attention paid to the natural environment the exhibit inhabits. All installations were constructed with the help of the Crystal Bridges Trails and Grounds team to mitigate environmental risk.

“If you see lights that are shining on trees, they are not affixed to those trees…they are away from anything that would leave permanent damage in the forest,” Benedetti said. “We were thinking very deeply about how we do this in a way that is safe for the forest.”

“Time Loop” is appropriate for all ages. Benedetti said he thinks the installations will appeal to anyone who spends time with them, regardless of age.

“If you are five years old, if you are 105, this is a space you can come and experience,” Benedetti said. “[Folks] can show up and their kids can get something out of this, and adults can get something out of it as well.”

Tickets for “Time Loop” are available at the Crystal Bridges website. The exhibit will run from Sept. 3 through Jan. 4, 2026. The exhibit is open after sunset, so opening times are adjusted as the days get shorter. General admission is $25 for adults, $15 for youth ages 11 to 18, and children ten and under are admitted freely (Crystal Bridges members receive discounts on adult and youth tickets as well).

The Crystal Bridges website advises viewing discretion for visitors with sensitivity to visual light stimulation. The six installations include lights that turn on and off and change rapidly, which might be triggering for guests who have sensitivities to flashing lights or neurodiverse guests prone to sensory overstimulation, according to the Crystal Bridges website.

You can learn more about “Time Loop,” the Klip Collective, and other Crystal Bridges news by visiting the Crystal Bridges website.

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