The completion of construction follows a twelve-month campaign undertaken by the artist to realise his self-initiated project. Chinneck initially spent six months approaching companies across British industry to present his design and convince them to donate all the materials, manufacturing capabilities and professional services required to build the sliding facade.

Alex Chinneck’s practice playfully warps the everyday world around us, presenting surreal spectacles in the places we expect to find something familiar. At 28 years old From the knees of my nose to the belly of toes is his boldest project yet as he continues to theatrically combine art and architecture in physically amazing ways. This project follows his acclaimed 2012 installation Telling the truth through false teeth, in which the artist installed 1,248 pieces of glass across the façade of a factory in Hackney to create the illusion that its 312 windows had been identically smashed and cracked.