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From: wray
Category: Exhibitions
Date: 09 November 2003
All the people, right here right now. The dummies come on their droves to lie down and stare at their images in the mirrored ceilings and gawp at the big yellow lamp collection representing the sun. The art gallery as funfair: the fun gets the crowds to look at the so-called art, the art makes the fun respectable and worthy of the attention of well brought up middle-class children. ( see also Commonwealth for more interactive play centre art).
Eliasson's installation works in one major way; the special yellow light turns the crowds bathed in it, black and white. The effect is uncanny and magical, as though we had all become an old photo. For once the idea of the viewers completing the art work comes true in a significant manner. The art makes the spectators into an image or another type of object, colourless or black and white statue, automata, or sepia ghosts. When we approach the sun we lose ourselves, are transformed, and the metaphorical and physical allusions are pretty nice.
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