I can use the camera to make a place or landscape; the camera to a greater extent projects rather than takes in or reproduces. The camera, or, rather, the eye, produces the impression of the place: I as a photographer am not passively taking in; I am active as a subject generating the object.
Olafur EliassonI believe that access to electricity and light can radically improve peopleโ lives.
Olafur EliassonMy goal is to formulate a new color theory based on the full spectrum of visible light.
Olafur EliassonIn the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city.
Olafur EliassonI do not think making art alone makes it any better than making it with a team of people.
Olafur EliassonOver the years, in making art, I have constantly explored issues dealing with space, time, light, and society. I am particularly interested in how the light of a space determines how we see that space and similarly, in how light and color are actually phenomena within us, within our own eyes.
Olafur Eliasson