Reality Machines by Olafur Eliasson at Moderna Museet
Stockholm’s Moderna Museet and the Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design ArkDes mounts Reality Machines – a series of colour spectrum installations conceived by Olafur Eliasson. Continuing his career-long exploration of perception, Eliasson applies nature as material instead of subject matter and employs different mediums, such as light, wind and water to express the notion of constructed or re-created reality.
The the Danish-Icelandic, Berlin-based artist’s site-specific works have always looked to address the user based on the notion of “seeing yourself seeing,” and acknowledging their presence as participation. In a reconstitution of Eliasson’s work Beauty (1993), perforated hoses are attached to the ceiling of a pitch-black room. A strategically projected spotlight shines on mist produced by a thousand droplets.
Reality Machines runs till 16 January, 2016 at Moderna Museet: Exercisplan, Skeppsholmen, Stockholm.
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