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  • Eye ceiling, 2005 - Emi Fontana West of Rome, Jamie Residence, Los Angeles, 2005 - Photo: Fredrik Nilsen
  • Eye ceiling, 2005 - Emi Fontana West of Rome, Jamie Residence, Los Angeles, 2005 - Photo: Fredrik Nilsen
  • Eye ceiling, 2005 - Emi Fontana West of Rome, Jamie Residence, Los Angeles, 2005 - Photo: Fredrik Nilsen
  • Bright Shadows: A conversation between Olafur Eliasson and Ina Blom
  • Eye ceiling, 2005 - Emi Fontana West of Rome, Jamie Residence, Pasadena, 2005 - Photo: Fredrik Nilsen
Eye ceiling, 2005 - Emi Fontana West of Rome, Jamie Residence, Los Angeles, 2005 - Photo: Fredrik Nilsen
Eye ceiling, 2005 - Emi Fontana West of Rome, Jamie Residence, Los Angeles, 2005 - Photo: Fredrik Nilsen
Eye ceiling, 2005 - Emi Fontana West of Rome, Jamie Residence, Los Angeles, 2005 - Photo: Fredrik Nilsen
Bright Shadows: A conversation between Olafur Eliasson and Ina Blom
Eye ceiling, 2005 - Emi Fontana West of Rome, Jamie Residence, Pasadena, 2005 - Photo: Fredrik Nilsen
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Eye ceiling, 2005

circle

colour

coloured shadow

illuminated

light

light pool

projection

  • circle
  • colour
  • coloured shadow
  • illuminated
  • light
  • light pool
  • projection

A colour-effect filter glass cylinder on a tripod casts a colored shadow onto the ceiling, reminiscent of an eye.

 

Artwork details

Title

Eye ceiling

Year

2005

Materials

Colour-effect filter glass, tripod, lamp
Related
Artist's books
  • Your Engagement Has Consequences; On the Relativity of Your Reality, 2006
Monographs
  • Studio Olafur Eliasson: An Encyclopedia, 2008
Solo shows
  • Meant to be lived In (Today I´m feeling prismatic), 2005
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