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  • Your orange afterimage exposed, 2000 - Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, 2000 - Photo: Gallery Koyanagi
  • Sketch for Your blue / orange afterimage exposed
  • Sketch for Your blue / orange afterimage exposed
  • Your orange afterimage exposed, 2000 - Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo – 2020 - Photo: Kazuo Fukunaga
  • Your orange afterimage exposed, 2000 - Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo – 2020 - Photo: Kazuo Fukunaga
Your orange afterimage exposed, 2000 - Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, 2000 - Photo: Gallery Koyanagi
Sketch for Your blue / orange afterimage exposed
Sketch for Your blue / orange afterimage exposed
Your orange afterimage exposed, 2000 - Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo – 2020 - Photo: Kazuo Fukunaga
Your orange afterimage exposed, 2000 - Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo – 2020 - Photo: Kazuo Fukunaga
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Your orange afterimage exposed, 2000

afterimage

colour

colour saturation

complementary colour

projection

square

  • afterimage
  • colour
  • colour saturation
  • complementary colour
  • projection
  • square

The bright blue square on the gallery wall flashes on and off at intervals – 15 seconds on, 10 seconds off. When the light is off, a vivid afterimage appears in the vision of each viewer to complete the work.

Artwork details

Title

Your orange afterimage exposed

Year

2000

Materials

Spotlight, dimmer, tripod, colour filter (blue)
Related
Artist's books
  • Your Engagement Has Consequences; On the Relativity of Your Reality, 2006
Conversation books
  • Olafur Eliasson and Hans Ulrich Obrist: The Conversation Series; vol. 13, 2008
Exhibition catalogues
  • Olafur Eliasson: Sometimes the river is the bridge, 2020
  • Colour Memory and Other Informal Shadows, 2004
  • Your Lighthouse: Works with Light 1991–2004, 2004
  • Surroundings Surrounded: Essays on Space and Science, 2001
Monographs
  • Olafur Eliasson, 2013
  • Studio Olafur Eliasson: An Encyclopedia, 2008
  • Olafur Eliasson, 2002
Solo shows
  • Olafur Eliasson: Sometimes the river is the bridge, 2020
  • Surroundings surrounded, 2001
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