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Happiness, 2011 - PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv – 2011 - Photo: Markus Tretter
Happiness, 2011
PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv – 2011
Photo: Markus Tretter
Happiness, 2011 - PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv – 2011 - Photo: Markus Tretter
Happiness, 2011
PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv – 2011
Photo: Markus Tretter
Happiness, 2011 - Long Museum, Shanghai, 2016 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Happiness, 2011
Long Museum, Shanghai, 2016
Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Happiness, 2011 - Long Museum, Shanghai, 2016 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Happiness, 2011
Long Museum, Shanghai, 2016
Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Happiness, 2011 - Long Museum, Shanghai, 2016 - Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Happiness, 2011
Long Museum, Shanghai, 2016
Photo: Anders Sune Berg
Happiness, 2011 - Photo: Tomas Gislason, 2011
Happiness, 2011
Photo: Tomas Gislason, 2011
Filmmaker Tómas Gislason documented Eliasson's installation ‘Happiness’ at PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, in 2011. Viewers peer through a long horizontal opening in the gallery wall at eye height, into a world of constant change. Inside, a surface lit only by ultraviolet light is covered in clusters of drifting bubbles. More bubbles float through the dark space above, appearing bright and iridescent as they catch the light; they collide, merge, pop, or descend to rest on the liquid surface in a continual process of appearance, disappearance, and transformation.
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A long horizontal opening in the gallery wall at eye height allows the viewer to peer into a world of constant change. Inside, a surface lit only by ultraviolet light is covered in clusters of drifting bubbles. More bubbles float through the dark space above, appearing bright and iridescent as they catch the light; they collide, merge, pop, or descend to rest on the liquid surface in a continual process of appearance, disappearance, and transformation.

Artwork details

Title

Happiness

Year

2011

Materials

Wood, rubber, black lights, plastic, water, fluorescent soap-bubble water, bubble machine, control unit, fans