Your uncertain shadow (colour)

As with most of Olafur Eliasson’s work, the visitor’s active participation is of vital importance in Your uncertain shadow (colour). Entering a seemingly empty space, she/he notices a row of small, bright spotlights in several colours that lies on the floor. As she/he passes in front of the device, it casts multiple shadows of her/him against the opposite blank wall. These shadows vary in color, darkness and size, depending on the visitor’s position. Space and scale are re-assessed in the light of this deceptively simple yet truly efficient and playful mechanism, a quality that is also emblematic of Eliasson’s work. Visitors haphazardly experiment with the system: to move is to open or close the fan of shadows, to experience the laws of projection and the delight of the silhouette simultaneously.