The light installation Your pluralistic coming together, 2024, is entirely dependent on the visitors’ presence in the space. An empty white wall is illuminated evenly by eight spotlights. When visitors enter the space and cross through the beams of light, they unleash a cascade of overlapping silhouettes that dance across the wall, each shadow a slightly different tone from the last. The silhouettes shift in colour intensity and scale as visitors move about, passing closer to and farther away from the lights. The simple but evocative effect results from the slightly offset spotlights and the different colour gels added to the lamps: together, the rainbow lights create white, but when one or the other is interrupted, the resulting shadows appear in other hues, in accordance with the additive colour model. Eliasson has created variations on this projection work over the years, but this is the first to use LED projectors. The energy-efficient technology not only reduces the energy consumption of the artwork but also provides a crisper white tone when the lights combine.
Artwork details | |
Title |
Your pluralistic coming together |
Year |
2024 |
Materials |
LED lamps, glass colour filters (purple, blue, turquoise, green, yellow, amber, red, magenta), steel, paint (black), black cardboard, ballasts |