Week 2
This exhibition “Olafur Eliasson: YOUR OCULAR RELIEF“ was held by Tanya Bonakdar Gallery last year. Olafur Eliasson was one of my favorite artists who is a master of playing with light, color, and our perception. Entering the room and seeing the projections on the wall, my first thought was just a simple projection of colors until I walk to the back of the room seeing all everything on the wall was created by light casting on multiple lenses, glass spheres. The entire structure for the projection was displayed to the audience.
According to the gallery, “An orchestra of lenses, prisms, mirrors, and color-effect filters slowly rotate within the beams of five spotlights. The light from the spotlights is broken apart and transformed through reflection and refraction into the sequences visible on the screen. As each apparatus revolves at a different pace, the relationship between the various sequences is constantly changing, always new. These lenses form at once the material for the exhibition and its conceptual inspiration. Most of the lenses featured here are from Eliasson’s own collection or are recycled from previous artworks and experiments that have taken place in the artist’s Berlin studio.”
Concepts 1: Circus monkey cycling on a high wire
The scene is in a circus with the audience, the player acts like the monkey cycling on a high wire
The player is given a balancing stick and a unicycle, after the pedals move, the projection moves forward.
Inspired by the example of Willow’s Sweater
Concepts 2: Object projection installation
use 3D white object for projection
use the contrast between light and heavy (cloud- string- rock)
inspired by Tony Oursler projection installation
