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  • The seeing space, 2015 - Moderna Museet, Stockholm 2015 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
  • The seeing space, 2015 - Moderna Museet, Stockholm 2015 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
  • The seeing space, 2015 - Moderna Museet, Stockholm 2015 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
  • The seeing space, 2015 - Tate Modern, London – 2019 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
  • The seeing space, 2015 - Tate Modern, London – 2019 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
  • The seeing space, 2015 - Tate Modern, London – 2019 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
  • The seeing space, 2015 - Guggenheim Museum Bilbao – 2020 - Photo: Erika Ede
The seeing space, 2015 - Moderna Museet, Stockholm 2015 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
The seeing space, 2015 - Moderna Museet, Stockholm 2015 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
The seeing space, 2015 - Moderna Museet, Stockholm 2015 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
The seeing space, 2015 - Tate Modern, London – 2019 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
The seeing space, 2015 - Tate Modern, London – 2019 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
The seeing space, 2015 - Tate Modern, London – 2019 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
The seeing space, 2015 - Guggenheim Museum Bilbao – 2020 - Photo: Erika Ede
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The seeing space, 2015

body consciousness

connecting space

looking at, looking through

seeing differently

small spatial experiments

sphere

  • body consciousness
  • connecting space
  • looking at, looking through
  • seeing differently
  • small spatial experiments
  • sphere

A large glass sphere, set into the wall, serves as an optical device that offers visitors distorted, inverted views of the activity in the room on the other side.

Artwork details

Title

The seeing space

Year

2015

Materials

Glass sphere
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  • Olafur Eliasson: In real life, 2019
  • Olafur Eliasson: Verklighetsmaskiner, 2015
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