Artist Olafur Eliasson Invites Viewers on an Unpredictable Journey in Taipei

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Acclaimed Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson is showcasing his works in Taipei for the first time at the "Your Curious Journey" exhibition, inviting people to rethink their relationship to nature.

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00:00Walking through a curtain of mist with bands of colourful light shimmering around,

00:07this is one of the works featured in the exhibition Your Curious Journey

00:12by Icelandic Danish artist Olafur Eliasson, who is exhibiting in Asia for the first time.

00:19With Taipei being his third stop on the tour, his installations invite visitors on an unpredictable journey of instability.

00:28Art is an opportunity to question yourself, question your view, question your journey,

00:36question the traditional way of doing things and open up for new ways of doing things.

00:42Art is unstable. Art is a surprise.

00:49Eliasson is known for unconventional works that blur the lines between art, nature and science.

00:56He harnesses natural elements like light, fog and water to evoke emotional responses from viewers,

01:03hoping to help people rethink their relationship with nature.

01:07Among his artworks on display in Taipei, his sun drawing and wind writing series created in the desert in 2023.

01:16This is the wind machine. So this is very windy. And you can see over here, this is the black and the white.

01:23This is the sun and the wind and everything speaking to us.

01:28However, off to decades of working with these natural materials.

01:31Eliasson says there's one in particular he favours.

01:35I think my favourite material is maybe time. The time it takes for you to look at something. The journey.

01:44This material is strongly reflected in the Glacier Melt series, which the artist worked on in 1999 and 2019 in Iceland.

01:54Many visitors were impressed with Eliasson's works on the first day of the exhibition.

02:01Some who have already seen the artist's exhibits before have come again.

02:06Some who have already seen the artist's exhibits before have come again.

02:27Some who have already seen the artist's exhibits before have come again.

02:31Eliasson's work will be on display at the museum through the end of September.

02:59Before moving on to its next stop in Indonesia.

03:03While it's here, Eliasson hopes Taipei visitors can stay curious and travel with them on this unpredictable journey.

03:10Andy Xue, Semoneta Ho and Sanichi for Taiwan Plus.

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