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Your hesitant kaleidorama, 2022 - Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea – 2022 - Photo: Agostino Osio
Your hesitant kaleidorama, 2022
Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea – 2022
Photo: Agostino Osio
Your hesitant kaleidorama, 2022 - Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin – 2022 - Photo: Biljana Joksimovic-Große / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your hesitant kaleidorama, 2022
Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin – 2022
Photo: Biljana Joksimovic-Große / Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your hesitant kaleidorama, 2022 - Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Türkiye – 2024 - Photo: Kayhan Kaygusuz
Your hesitant kaleidorama, 2022
Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Türkiye – 2024
Photo: Kayhan Kaygusuz
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Your hesitant kaleidorama is the second kaleidorama in the exhibition Orizzonti tremanti that focuses exclusively on the optical phenomenon of light flares in lens systems. The structure, attached to the wall along one mirrored side, is tilted downward toward viewers, who face the curved screen straight on. Reflected by the two abutting mirror panels, the optically enlarged mirrored space seems to expand down and away from the viewer in three dimensions. On the wall behind the screen, a wooden box with a slowly rotating arrangement of lenses and color-effect filters refocuses a spotlight beam onto the rear of the screen. Coronas and tinted ellipses of light—usually considered as optical aberrations in photography or film—here instead become the focus in a complex, ever-changing display of shapes and shadows.

Artwork details

Title

Your hesitant kaleidorama

Year

2022

Materials

Projection screen, mirror foil, wood, stainless steel, LED lamp, aluminium, brass, plastic, lenses, optical components, colour-effect filter glass (cyan), motors, electrical ballasts, control units