Share your Contact impressions on Instagram with #EliassonFLV

Now: Contact at Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
On view from 17 December until 16 February, 2015

Now: Turner colour experiments at Tate Britain, London

Thoughts that have not been thought yet
Words that have not yet found their form

Museums are observatories

Out of space geometry - sliced meteorite revealing intricate Widmanstätten pattern #EliassonFLV

The eighteen moons in penumbra, 2014

We carry our horizons with us. #EliassonFLV

Chaque matin je me sens différent, chaque soir je me sens le même
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2002

Bridge from the future #EliassonFLV

In process: Sculpting fivefold symmetry #EliassonFLV

To track the sun is to track yourself - #EliassonFLV

The sun tracker redirects sunlight onto a fixed point by adjusting a mirror in concert with the ‘movement’ of the sun across the sky.

The apparatus belongs to a family of optical devices known formally as heliostats – a word deriving from Greek roots that mean stationary sun.

To track the sun is to track yourself, because the sun tracker locates the centre of your orbital ellipse, giving your position right now and rendering visible your path. The reflexive potential lies in understanding that we are in a way the mirrors, circulating, tracking, spinning in our Keplerian ellipses. You and I are not the centre of the universe, but in fact spinning in altruistic space.

Olafur Eliasson

This meteorite just landed in the studio. Soon on its way to Paris.

Soon: Exhibition at Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris

My exhibition at Fondation Louis Vuitton addresses that which lies at the edge of our senses and knowledge, of our imagination and our expectations. It’s about the horizon that divides, for each of us, the known from the unknown.

Olafur Eliasson

Objects are always a little bit out of phase with themselves and with one another... they are 'internally' out of phase with themselves, and this is what produces time and the possibility that they can interact. Timothy Morton, philosopher