Olafur Eliasson on sparking wonder and different ways of seeing at his latest solo show at Singapore Art Museum - SilverKris
"Titled “Your curious journey,” this first major solo show in Southeast Asia (on view until 22 September 2024) gathers 17 immersive, playful installations that invite child-like wonder and multiple perspectives. The exhibition treats the act of moving through the works as part of the art itself, using light, fog, mist, lasers and simple materials to transform perception: Symbiotic seeing (2020) combines precisely tuned lasers and fog to produce an underwater-sunset-like ceiling of ripples; Beauty (1993) conjures a rainbow from a fine mist and a spotlight that appears only from certain viewer angles; Yellow corridor (1997) bathes visitors in monofrequency light so strongly that the exit reads like “light at the end of a tunnel”; The cubic structural evolution project (2004) is a large table of white Lego bricks that the audience continually reshapes into evolving cityscapes; and The last seven days of glacial ice (2024) renders the meltwater from a scanned Icelandic glacier chunk to make the vast, slow-moving problem of sea-level rise more tangible. Many pieces are deliberately site-specific—framing local views such as the Keppel harbour—and the works are presented to encourage reflection on social, political and environmental contexts as much as sensory delight." - Gwen Pew
