For <em>Your view matter</em>, 2022, Eliasson invites audiences to journey in virtual reality through a series of six forms, accompanied by a minimalist soundtrack created by the artist.
In the artwork, users move through a progression of ever larger geometric spaces and finally reach a sphere. The architecture of these virtual spaces is based on the Platonic solids – the tetrahedron, octahedron, icosahedron, dodecahedron, and cube. These three-dimensional forms are each made of a set of identical and recognisable shapes – triangles, pentagons, and squares – that result in simple yet surprisingly complex spaces.
The walls and ceilings of each form scintillate with ever-changing moiré patterns, distortions that arise wherever similar patterns are overlaid. In Your view matter these patterns – some quite colourful and others in stark black and white – change dramatically in response to the viewer’s movements and active engagement.
"When you look at a moiré, you are in fact seeing how you see – and you see yourself moving. Without your motion, there would be no moiré. I have long been preoccupied with ephemeral and atmospheric spaces in my work. Art allows us to see reality as negotiable, bringing with it a freedom to reinterpret our own past, present and future." – Olafur Eliasson
Your view matter was commissioned by MetaKovan and created in collaboration with Acute Art, who provide the world’s leading artists access to cutting-edge technologies that allow them to translate their creative visions into new digital mediums – including virtual, augmented and mixed realities.