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Olafur Eliasson

CCA Kitakyushu Project Gallery presented a new work by Olafur Eliasson.

In his work, he often employs modern technology as devices in various levels and creates particular phenomena, by which he questions human perception of reality.

In the course of history one can observe how different models of perception and relating to space replaced and necessitated on another, parallel with social, ideological, technical and other changes. In all given physical structures there are relationships in the form of socialization potentials. For the individual, these models and relations can seem so natural that one can mistakenly assume that they are actual characteristics of our surroundings. Eliasson’s apparently wholly physical experiments with water and light, air and color, often indirectly based on astrophysical and subatomic research and experiments, are therefore in reality also experiments with our models of perception and environment models and hence also with our social structures.

Olafur Eliasson stayed at CCA Kitakyushu as Professor of Research Program during a month in February 2000.

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