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Your pearl garden, 2023 - Al Thakhira, Qatar – 2023 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Your pearl garden, 2023
Al Thakhira, Qatar – 2023
Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Your pearl garden, 2023 (Detail) - Al Thakhira, Qatar – 2023 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Your pearl garden, 2023 (Detail)
Al Thakhira, Qatar – 2023
Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Installation view, the curious desert - Al Thakhira, Qatar – 2023 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Installation view, the curious desert
Al Thakhira, Qatar – 2023
Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Installation view: The curious desert (4) - near the Al Thakhira Mangrove in Northern Qatar – 2023 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Installation view: The curious desert (4)
near the Al Thakhira Mangrove in Northern Qatar – 2023
Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Your pearl garden, 2023 - Al Thakhira, Qatar – 2023 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Your pearl garden, 2023
Al Thakhira, Qatar – 2023
Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Your pearl garden, 2023 - Al Thakhira, Qatar – 2023 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Your pearl garden, 2023
Al Thakhira, Qatar – 2023
Photo: Anders Sune Berg
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Fascinated by the myriad distorted and repeated reflections that an accumulation of glass spheres produces, Eliasson has used this material again and again over the last decade. The arrangement, which exhibits no particular geometrical logic, includes a number of coloured spheres interspersed among the clear ones. The coloured spheres are not uniformly covered with paint, but have been adorned with small circles of colour at only one point, which causes them to change in appearance according to the angle at which they are seen. 
In this context, Eliasson is especially interested in the glass spheres’ resemblance to pearls, the rare objects of beauty that played an important role in the culture and economy of the nearby lagoon.

Artwork details

Title

Your pearl garden

Year

2023

Materials

Galvanized steel, textile (white, anthracite), solar lamp, glass spheres (various sizes), silver, paint (black, yellow)