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Your silent running, 2003 - Long Museum, Shanghai, 2016 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Your silent running, 2003
Long Museum, Shanghai, 2016
Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Your silent running, 2003 - Long Museum, Shanghai, 2016 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Your silent running, 2003
Long Museum, Shanghai, 2016
Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Your silent running, 2003 - Long Museum, Shanghai, 2016 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Your silent running, 2003
Long Museum, Shanghai, 2016
Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Sketch for Your silent running, 2003
Sketch for Your silent running, 2003
Conversation between Olafur Eliasson and Hans Ulrich Obrist
Conversation between Olafur Eliasson and Hans Ulrich Obrist
Conversation between Olafur Eliasson and Hans Ulrich Obrist
Conversation between Olafur Eliasson and Hans Ulrich Obrist
 Spread from Funcionamiento silencioso: Olafur Eliasson, edited by Caroline Eggel / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Madrid 2003
Spread from Funcionamiento silencioso: Olafur Eliasson, edited by Caroline Eggel / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Madrid 2003
Your silent running, 2003 - Palacio de Cristal, Parque del Retiro, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reine Sofia, Madrid, 2003 - Photo: Olafur Eliasson
Your silent running, 2003
Palacio de Cristal, Parque del Retiro, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reine Sofia, Madrid, 2003
Photo: Olafur Eliasson
Your silent running, 2003 - Palacio de Cristal, Parque del Retiro, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reine Sofia, Madrid 2003 - Photo: Olafur Eliasson
Your silent running, 2003
Palacio de Cristal, Parque del Retiro, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reine Sofia, Madrid 2003
Photo: Olafur Eliasson
At studio Olafur Eliasson, constructing Your silent running, 2003 (2003) - Photo: Runa Maya Mørk Huber/ Studio Olafur Eliasson
At studio Olafur Eliasson, constructing Your silent running, 2003 (2003)
Photo: Runa Maya Mørk Huber/ Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your silent running, 2003 - Palacio de Cristal, Parque del Retiro, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reine Sofia, Madrid, 2003 - Photo: Olafur Eliasson
Your silent running, 2003
Palacio de Cristal, Parque del Retiro, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reine Sofia, Madrid, 2003
Photo: Olafur Eliasson
Your silent running, 2003 - Palacio de Cristal, Parque del Retiro, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reine Sofia, Madrid, 2003 - Photo: Olafur Eliasson
Your silent running, 2003
Palacio de Cristal, Parque del Retiro, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reine Sofia, Madrid, 2003
Photo: Olafur Eliasson
Your silent running, 2003 - Palacio de Cristal, Parque del Retiro, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reine Sofia, Madrid, 2003 - Photo: Olafur Eliasson
Your silent running, 2003
Palacio de Cristal, Parque del Retiro, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reine Sofia, Madrid, 2003
Photo: Olafur Eliasson
Sketch for Your silent running, 2003
Sketch for Your silent running, 2003
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Your silent running presents a white polyhedral structure composed of alternating hexagonal and pentagonal panels, and perched on four squat legs. At the top of a short stairway, an angled door cut into one of the panels allows passage into the dark interior, where an array of continually pouring water droplets appear to freeze in mid-air, illuminated by the flashes of a strobe light. The outer shell is constructed from prefabricated fibreglass panels employed in domes that were designed by Eliasson’s long-time collaborator Einar Thorsteinn for use in the exploitation of geothermal energy in Iceland.

 

Artwork details

Title

Your silent running

Year

2003/2016

Materials

Fibreglass, stainless steel, paint (black), foam, water, plastic, nozzles, hose, pump, strobe light, aluminium foil