James Turrell’s Shangri La (Over The Hump)

‘You are looking at you looking.’ James Turrell, 1993 Experience Shangri La (Over The Hump), a monumental immersive installation by internationally acclaimed artist James Turrell, presented as part of Task Eternal, an opening exhibition at Powerhouse Parramatta exploring flight, space and human perception. A new installation of a work from Turrell’s celebrated Ganzfeld series, it envelops audiences within a shifting atmosphere of light and colour where depth, distance and spatial boundaries dissolve. Developed from sensory perception experiments undertaken with artist Robert Irwin in the late 1960s, the installation creates an environment in which the horizon disappears and perception becomes uncertain – echoing the disorienting and transcendent conditions associated with flight and the vastness of space.