Olafur Eliasson, Water Pendulum (2010)

Olafur Eliasson (1967) creates space-filling installations by a collaborative interdisciplinary team of artists, media specialist, scientist and architects. Eliasson’s main concerns are the changing nature of time, light, air temperature and space to find alternate ways to sense and engage with the environment, especially in these difficult times of climate crisis.

Water Pendulum (2010) is an installation that presents dancing water streams illuminated by strobe light that transforms the unpredictable flow of water into frozen moments. Inspired by Eadweard Muybridge’s studies of motion in animals, this work turns the photographic act into a spatial phenomenon to speculate around the relative nature of time.