SHIMURAbros filmed viewers experiencing Eliasson’s work ’The unspeakable openness of things’ at his solo exhibition of the same name at Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing, in 2018. A large ring seems to cross the boundary between physical and reflected space. The light emitted by the ring, produced by monofrequency lamps, reduces all colours to a range of yellowish grey tones that sharpens viewers’ visual perception. These lights, often used to illuminate tunnels for enhanced safety, appear in many of Eliasson’s works, including ‘The weather project’ at Tate Modern, London, in 2003.
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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.