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  • Take your time, 2008 - Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo, 2011 - Photo: Olafur Eliasson
  • Take your time, 2008 - MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York, 2008 - Photo: Christopher Burke
  • Installation view - MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York, 2008
  • Take your time, 2008 - Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo, 2011 - Photo: Olafur Eliasson
  • Take your time, 2008 - Luma Foundation – 2022 - Photo: Adrian Deweerdt
  • Take your time, 2008 - Luma Foundation – 2022 - Photo: Adrian Deweerdt
  • Take your time, 2008 - Luma Foundation, Arles, France – 2022 - Photo: Jörg Schwarzburg
  • Take your time, 2008 - Luma Foundation – 2022 - Photo: Jörg Schwarzburg
Take your time, 2008 - Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo, 2011 - Photo: Olafur Eliasson
Take your time, 2008 - MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York, 2008 - Photo: Christopher Burke
Installation view - MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York, 2008
Take your time, 2008 - Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo, 2011 - Photo: Olafur Eliasson
Take your time, 2008 - Luma Foundation – 2022 - Photo: Adrian Deweerdt
Take your time, 2008 - Luma Foundation – 2022 - Photo: Adrian Deweerdt
Take your time, 2008 - Luma Foundation, Arles, France – 2022 - Photo: Jörg Schwarzburg
Take your time, 2008 - Luma Foundation – 2022 - Photo: Jörg Schwarzburg
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Take your time, 2008

being with

circle

destabilisation

perceiving space

rotation

slowing down

surroundings

take your time

  • being with
  • circle
  • destabilisation
  • perceiving space
  • rotation
  • slowing down
  • surroundings
  • take your time

A large circular mirror, affixed at an angle to the ceiling, rotates slowly on its axis, destabilizing the visitors’ perception of space and turning the viewer into an active co-producer of the work.

Artwork details

Title

Take your time

Year

2008

Materials

Foil mirror, aluminium, steel, motor, control unit
Related
Exhibition catalogues
  • Olafur Eliasson - Baroque Baroque, 2015
  • Seu corpo da obra, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, 2012
  • Olafur Eliasson: Seu corpo da obra / Your Body of Work, 2011
Monographs
  • Olafur Eliasson: Experience, 2018
  • Olafur Eliasson, 2013
Solo shows
  • Olafur Eliasson: Seu corpo da obra (Your body of work), 2011 - 2012
  • Take your time: Olafur Eliasson, 2008
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