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Colour shadow theatre, 2009 - 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, 2009 - Photo: Kioku Keizo / Courtesy of 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
Colour shadow theatre, 2009
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, 2009
Photo: Kioku Keizo / Courtesy of 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
Colour shadow theatre, 2009 - 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, 2009 - Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Colour shadow theatre, 2009
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, 2009
Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Colour shadow theatre, 2009 - 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, 2009 - Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Colour shadow theatre, 2009
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, 2009
Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Colour shadow theatre, 2009 - 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, 2009 - Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Colour shadow theatre, 2009
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, 2009
Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Colour shadow theatre, 2009 - 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, 2009 - Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
Colour shadow theatre, 2009
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, 2009
Photo: Studio Olafur Eliasson
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Colour shadow theatre is a large, star-shaped room which viewers can enter and participate in an enveloping color experiment. In work such as Colour shadow theatre, Eliasson inserts the user directly into the work, and into the role of subject and co-producer.

'In Colour shadow theatre, there are no objects, only bodies moving between the lights and projeted images. As more people congregate and move in the space, the projected images superimpose, merge, detach and proliferate, their colours intensifying or shadows deepening as they draw closer to one another, lightening as they pull away. No stable image is created; the visual phenomena are ephemeral. It is pure performance, pure event.'

(Eve Blau, 'The Third Project', in: Olafur Eliasson: Your Chance Encounter, 2010)

 

Artwork details

Title

Colour shadow theatre

Year

2009

Materials

HMI lamps, colour-effect filter glass, steel, foamcore mirror, projection foil, wood