Year: 2006
Medium: stainless steel, aluminum, color-effect filter glass, mono-frequency bulb
Dimensions: 230 x 120 x 110 cm (90 1/2 x 47 1/4 x 43 1/4 in.)
Edition: No. 24 of 30
Acquired from Gallery Koyanagi, 2022
This is an installation work created by Eliasson in 2006, presenting artworks using light as a medium of expression. In “The weather project,” which was exhibited at Tate Modern in London in 2003, Eliasson used mono-frequency light to repaint all visible light in the space yellow. In its location of the former power plant, the work was an artificial representation of the sun, a symbol of energy for humans. While the natural world is gifted with full of colors from the wide range of frequencies in sunlight, the mono-frequency light used in this work has a nature of extremely narrow frequency range. Thus, the natural colors of the objects that are exposed to this light cannot be perceived properly. Eliasson urges viewers to relate to a kind of empathy by placing restrictions on this heavenly gift of light from the sky that equally pours on all nature. Everyone who stands in front of this work equally loses their differences shown by clothing and skin color. Through sharing this unique environment, viewers are given the possibility to be freed from any attributes and to face each other again as truly equal human beings. In this collection, this work is displayed as an installation of infinitely amplified light by using the walls of the exhibition room in the museum as mirrors, with reference to the installations used at Tate Modern.
