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Seu planeta compartilhado (Your shared planet), 2011 - The Winter Palace of Prince Eugene of Savoy, Vienna 2015 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Seu planeta compartilhado (Your shared planet), 2011
The Winter Palace of Prince Eugene of Savoy, Vienna 2015
Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Seu planeta compartilhado (Your shared planet), 2011 - The Winter Palace of Prince Eugene of Savoy, Vienna 2015 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Seu planeta compartilhado (Your shared planet), 2011
The Winter Palace of Prince Eugene of Savoy, Vienna 2015
Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Seu planeta compartilhado (Your shared planet), 2011 - Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo, 2011 - Photo: Olafur Eliasson
Seu planeta compartilhado (Your shared planet), 2011
Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo, 2011
Photo: Olafur Eliasson
Seu planeta compartilhado (Your shared planet), 2011 - Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo, 2011 - Photo: Olafur Eliasson
Seu planeta compartilhado (Your shared planet), 2011
Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo, 2011
Photo: Olafur Eliasson
Seu planeta compartilhado (Your shared planet), 2011 - Photo: Olafur Eliasson
Seu planeta compartilhado (Your shared planet), 2011
Photo: Olafur Eliasson
Seu planeta compartilhado (Your shared planet), 2011 - Photo: Jens Ziehe, 2013
Seu planeta compartilhado (Your shared planet), 2011
Photo: Jens Ziehe, 2013
Seu planeta compartilhado (Your shared planet), 2011 - Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2013 - Photo: Jens Ziehe
Seu planeta compartilhado (Your shared planet), 2011
Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2013
Photo: Jens Ziehe
Seu planeta compartilhado (Your shared planet), 2011 - Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2013 - Photo: Jens Ziehe
Seu planeta compartilhado (Your shared planet), 2011
Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2013
Photo: Jens Ziehe
Seu planeta compartilhado (Your shared planet), 2011 - Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2013 - Photo: Jens Ziehe
Seu planeta compartilhado (Your shared planet), 2011
Studio Olafur Eliasson, 2013
Photo: Jens Ziehe
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Seu planeta compartilhado presents itself as a sequence of individually shaped and coloured kaleidoscopes, resting on a unified metallic frame. The work – ranging in shape from triangular and hexagonal to rhombic and square – invites the viewer to become an active co-producer of space by walking along the curved, open side of the viewing machine. Moving along the openings at eye-level, a faceted view of the surrounding space unfolds, in changing colours from yellow to green, turquoise, and blue. The tapered ends of the four kaleidoscopes are synchronised in their orientation to one joint vanishing point. The process of seeing the space through a sequence of kaleidoscopes produces seemingly infinite fragmentary reflections; a spherical shape emerges, the image of a shared space, and ultimately a shared planet. Seu planeta compartilhado touches on a recurrent theme in Eliasson’s work: the co-dependency of perception, space, and universe.

Artwork details

Title

Seu planeta compartilhado (Your shared planet)

Year

2011

Materials

Stainless steel, aluminium, colour-effect filter glass (cyan, blue, pink, yellow), glass mirrors