'Device for seeing potential solar futures', 2024 is part of a series of installations within the exhibition 'Olafur Eliasson: OPEN' responding to MOCA Geffen’s building and the atmospheric conditions of Los Angeles. Eliasson draws attention to the relativity of our perception and challenges habitual ways of seeing and experiencing the world. The work feels like something built for the space programme. The abutting mirrors reflect the shape again and again, conjuring the illusion of a planet or sun floating in the virtual space above. Plastic garbage floats around inside this kaleidoscope, circulating around within it like ‘space junk’, as the artist calls it. From outside, visitors can see the tubes and pipes that conduct air into the shaft to keep the garbage in motion.

Video by SHIMURAbros
Music by mamoru