SHIMURAbros' film captures different phases of Olafur Eliasson's light installation 'Interpretive flare display of unthought thoughts', 2020, as part his solo exhibition 'Near future living light', at neugerriemschneider, Berlin. On the wall of the darkened gallery at an evocative light show of ever-changing shapes, colours, and shadows emerges and evolves. The sequence develops and vanishes in a slow continuum that is at once two-dimensional and architectural. The viewer, despite knowing that the projection is flat, sees space where there is none, wondering: are the shapes getting smaller and larger or are they moving further away and closer to me?
As inspiration for his approach to the projection works, Eliasson cites experiments in film and photography of the early twentieth century by constructivist and expressionist artists like Hans Richter and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. Light refraction is a phenomenon that has interested the artist for many years and has inspired a range of projection works and, more recently, a series of glass works whose compositions were derived from lens flares.
Music by mamoru.
SHIMURAbros are the filmmaking sibling duo Yuka and Kentaro Shimura. Their work has been exhibited worldwide at venues such as the National Arts Center, Tokyo; the National University of Singapore’s Centre for the Arts, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei; The Hessel Museum of Art and CCS Bard Galleries in New York; the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts; and Museums Quartier, Vienna.