The video for Peggy Gou’s song '1+1=11' shows Olafur Eliasson dancing inside a light installation at his studio in Berlin. As he breakdances – gliding, popping, and moving like a robot – he crosses through beams of light from eight projectors, each of a different hue, unleashing an array of colourful shadows and silhouettes that overlap and cascade across the wall. Olafur first began breakdancing as a teenager, an experience he often credits as having inspired his embodied approach to art-making. In the video, Peggy Gou appears in the studio among the geometric models, lights, and mirrors, holding aloft a polarising disc that becomes alternately transparent and dark as she turns it.
The music video '1+1=11' is a collaboration between Olafur Eliasson and Peggy Gou, featuring on her debut album 'I Hear You', released by XL Recordings, 2024.
Starring: Peggy Gou and Olafur Eliasson. Artistic Director: Olafur Eliasson. Choreographer: Steen Koerner. Production: ProdCo. DOP: Franz Lustig. Editor: Armen Harootun / Co-Editor: Elena Bromund. Commissioned by XL Recordings, UK.