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Your silent running, 2003 - Long Museum, Shanghai, 2016 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Your silent running, 2003 - Long Museum, Shanghai, 2016 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Your silent running, 2003 - Long Museum, Shanghai, 2016 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Sketch for Your silent running, 2003
Conversation between Olafur Eliasson and Hans Ulrich Obrist
Conversation between Olafur Eliasson and Hans Ulrich Obrist
 Spread from Funcionamiento silencioso: Olafur Eliasson, edited by Caroline Eggel / Studio Olafur Eliasson, Madrid 2003
Your silent running, 2003 - Palacio de Cristal, Parque del Retiro, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reine Sofia, Madrid, 2003 - Photo: Olafur Eliasson
Your silent running, 2003 - Palacio de Cristal, Parque del Retiro, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reine Sofia, Madrid 2003 - Photo: Olafur Eliasson
At studio Olafur Eliasson, constructing Your silent running, 2003 (2003) - Photo: Runa Maya Mørk Huber/ Studio Olafur Eliasson
Your silent running, 2003 - Palacio de Cristal, Parque del Retiro, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reine Sofia, Madrid, 2003 - Photo: Olafur Eliasson
Your silent running, 2003 - Palacio de Cristal, Parque del Retiro, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reine Sofia, Madrid, 2003 - Photo: Olafur Eliasson
Your silent running, 2003 - Palacio de Cristal, Parque del Retiro, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reine Sofia, Madrid, 2003 - Photo: Olafur Eliasson
Sketch for Your silent running, 2003
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Your silent running presents a white polyhedral structure composed of alternating hexagonal and pentagonal panels, and perched on four squat legs. At the top of a short stairway, an angled door cut into one of the panels allows passage into the dark interior, where an array of continually pouring water droplets appear to freeze in mid-air, illuminated by the flashes of a strobe light. The outer shell is constructed from prefabricated fibreglass panels employed in domes that were designed by Eliasson’s long-time collaborator Einar Thorsteinn for use in the exploitation of geothermal energy in Iceland.

 

Artwork details

Title

Your silent running

Year

2003/2016

Materials

Fibreglass, stainless steel, paint (black), foam, water, plastic, nozzles, hose, pump, strobe light, aluminium foil