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  • Your strange certainty still kept, 1996 - Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, 1996
  • Your strange certainty still kept, 1996 - Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Germany – 2001 - Photo: Franz Wamhof
  • Sketch for Your strange certainty still kept, 1996
  • Sketch for Your strange certainty still kept, 1996
  • Your strange certainty still kept, 1996 - Museum of Modern Art,  New York, 2008 - Photo: Christopher Burke
  • Your strange certainty still kept, 1996 - Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Germany – 2001 - Photo: Franz Wamhof
Your strange certainty still kept, 1996 - Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, 1996
Your strange certainty still kept, 1996 - Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Germany – 2001 - Photo: Franz Wamhof
Sketch for Your strange certainty still kept, 1996
Sketch for Your strange certainty still kept, 1996
Your strange certainty still kept, 1996 - Museum of Modern Art,  New York, 2008 - Photo: Christopher Burke
Your strange certainty still kept, 1996 - Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Germany – 2001 - Photo: Franz Wamhof
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Your strange certainty still kept, 1996

darkness

frozen

installation

light

moving water

optical illusion

seeing differently

time

  • darkness
  • frozen
  • installation
  • light
  • moving water
  • optical illusion
  • seeing differently
  • time

Water drips from a perforated hose, mounted on a ceiling of a darkened space, forming a shimmering curtain. The water is collected in a shallow basin on the floor and pumped back up through a pipe. Strobe lights make the falling water appear momentarily frozen with each flash of light.

Artwork details

Title

Your strange certainty still kept

Year

1996

Materials

Water, strobe lights, nozzles, hose, acrylic, plastic sheet, pump
Related
Artist's books
  • My Now Is Your Surroundings: Process as Object, 2001
Exhibition catalogues
  • Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson, 2007
  • Colour Memory and Other Informal Shadows, 2004
  • Your Lighthouse: Works with Light 1991–2004, 2004
  • Surroundings Surrounded: Essays on Space and Science, 2001
  • Olafur Eliasson, 1997
Interviews
  • The Whys and Hows of My Art Making, 2018
Monographs
  • Olafur Eliasson: Experience, 2018
  • Olafur Eliasson, 2013
  • Studio Olafur Eliasson: An Encyclopedia, 2008
  • Olafur Eliasson, 2002
Solo shows
  • Take your time: Olafur Eliasson, 2008
  • Surroundings surrounded, 2001
  • Surroundings surrounded, 2000
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