Light and water
For Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Eliasson has developed a large installation in which waves of light are visualized in a monumental way by a continuous interplay between light and water.
Eliasson plays with the concept that a conscious perception carries within it the potential for change. Many of his installations are based on the question: Where in society can we still use our senses to define our surroundings, instead of just being defined by them? The fact that, in Eliasson’s work, a direct relationship emerges between the individual / the visitor and his surroundings, means that the former becomes conscious of the possibilities for changing those surroundings. The surroundings do not play a central part, the individual does.