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Abstract: The Art of Design Documentary Episode 1 Olafur Eliasson
Olafur Eliasson’s art is driven by his interests in perception, movement, embodied experience and feelings of self. Most of his work strives to make a great impact relating his work to the society. One of his work, “Room for all colours” exploring the way that colour is ‘produced’ by the manipulation of visual phenomena within an environment. He uses a projection screen to divide a room from floor to ceiling by litting a matrix of red, green and blue filter foils using a grid of white lights mounted to a wall. By adjusting the intensity of the light behind the filters and diffusing it through the projection screen, the work can produce any colour, presenting visitors with one homogeneous hue. Through this experiment, visitors are reminded not only our experience of colour is closely related to our experience of light, but also that it is influenced by cultural habit and physical environment. I feel that his idea was brilliant on how many people trying to search for other colours and making them to appreciate colour.
‘Over the years, in making art, I have constantly explored issues dealing with space, time, light, and society. I am particularly interested in how the light of a space determines how we see that space and similarly, in how light and colour are actually phenomena within us, within our own eyes.’ Olafur Eliasson, 2018
