Calligraphy Square & surroundings
Part 3 of the photo tour of Sharjah Biennial 11: Re:emerge. Towards a New Cultural Cartography, 13 March - 13 May 2013. Curator: Yuko Hasegawa. More than 100 participants.
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Venue: Ceramics House
Your embodied garden. 2013
Colour HD video projection with sound (approximately 15 min)
Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has continually pursued ideas of sharing and sensing, moving through and coproducing space. He explores and challenges patterns of perception, finding nature a constant source of fascination. In February 2011, he visited the Master of Nets and the Lion Grove, two scholar’s gardens in Suzhou, China. The aim of the journey was to explore these traditional gardens as models for physical movement, duration, flow and rhythm. When he entered the scholar’s garden he saw the limits of what he could see and the construction of his own way of seeing things, taking the opportunity to reflect on himself and to let the space garden him and his companion, choreographer Steen Koerner. In the garden they inverted their perspective, looking at the body as a result of the garden and not the other way around.
© Still: Olafur Eliasson
(Repro: Haupt & Binder)
© Text: SB11 Guidebook
Part 3 of the photo tour of Sharjah Biennial 11: Re:emerge. Towards a New Cultural Cartography, 13 March - 13 May 2013. Curator: Yuko Hasegawa. More than 100 participants.