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the Weather Project:
representations of the sun and sky dominate the expanse of a hall
The subject of the weather has long shaped the content of everyday conversation. The eighteenth-century writer Samuel Johnson famously remarked ‘It is commonly observed, that when two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather; they are in haste to tell each other, what each must already know, that it is hot or cold, bright or cloudy, windy or calm.’ In The Weather Project, the fourth in the annual Unilever Series of commissions for the Turbine Hall, Olafur Eliasson takes this ubiquitous subject as the basis for exploring ideas about experience, mediation and representation.
Contributor notes
What is surprising, refreshing, most interesting?
The artist, Olafur Eliasson, replace the ceiling with a huge mirror. Audiences look up, and see themselves.
Key Insights? What can we learn from this?
the installation put visitors back in touch with the deep sense of awe our forefathers must have felt as they watched the sun rise and set each day - and, against all the odds, it succeeds.