SHIMURAbros filmed Eliasson’s exhibition Orizzonti tremanti / Trembling horizons, at Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, in 2022.

For the exhibition, Eliasson constructed six immersive wedge-shaped chambers inside the long gallery wing of Castello di Rivoli. Entering into these optical device–like artworks, the viewer encountered 360-degree panoramic spaces that seemed far larger than physically possible – an optical illusion created through abutting mirrors. The mirrors also reflected ripples of light projected off the surfaces of water onto screens, creating complex patterns that unfolded around the viewers in fluid motion.

Eliasson says of the artworks: ‘Standing inside these kaleidoramas, you may feel as if you were watching time unfold. It is an opportunity to reconsider your sense of scale and time, like when you study images from a deep-space telescope, which come from the very limits of our imagination.’

SHIMURAbros are the filmmaking sibling duo of 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.