Olafur Eliasson March 29, 2005

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Olafur Eliasson
March 29

In his sculptures and large-scale installations, Olafur Eliasson uses the very stuff of nature--light, steam, water, fire, and wind--to examine how the relationship between the natural world and culture shifts when manipulated within a fixed space. In past projects, he has constructed an artificial rainbow, reversed the direction of a waterfall, and, most famously, transformed the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall with representations of the sun and sky. The Weather Project, commissioned in 2003 for the Tate Modern's acclaimed Unilever Series, featured a giant semi-circular form, made of hundreds of mono-frequency lamps. The ceiling above the lamps was replaced by a mirror reflecting the light. A fine mist permeated the space, as if creeping in from the environment outside. By leaving electrical wiring and the mist-making machine in plain sight, Eliasson compelled his viewers to weigh the dramatic sensory impact of a brilliantly glowing sun in the sky against the installation's obvious construction and artifice.

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