I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality. I do not see the artist as a person who sits at a distance and evaluates.
Olafur EliassonI want to expose and evaluate the fact that the seeing and sensing process is a system that should not be taken for granted as natural - it's a cultivated means of reality production that, as a system, can be negotiated and changed.
Olafur EliassonI don't think you need to be so result-oriented when you're trying to define the success of an art work. I think we can allow some unpredictability.
Olafur EliassonMy goal is to formulate a new color theory based on the full spectrum of visible light.
Olafur Eliasson