We do not perceive the world we see. We see the world we perceive. Massless Suns and Dark Suns A group of countless spheres of light. When people approach the spheres, they shine brightly and the surrounding spheres respond one after the other. When you widen your field of vision, spheres made of darkness also begin to appear, as though darkness has been solidified. However, these spheres of light and spheres of darkness do not exist. The spheres of darkness cannot even be captured on camera. There is no material, such as glass, on the surface of the spheres; the spheres are made only of light. There is no material surface boundary, and the perception of the boundary with your body is ambiguous. In reality, light cannot solidify into a spherical mass in the universe. Therefore, the spheres do not physically exist. This is a Cognitive Sculpture that appears only in the human world of perception. The materials are light and the environment. And the subject of its creation is the viewer's own body and perception. The spheres cannot exist on their own - their existence is a phenomenon created in relation to their environment. The phenomenon created by the environment is shaped for the first time by the dynamic body and perception of the viewer, becoming a sculpture in their cognitive world. The artwork explores the possibility of a new form of existence distinct from material existence, and questions the very nature of existence. Massless Sun and Surface of the Sky There is no material, such as glass, on the surface of the spheres of light; the spheres are made only of light. There is no material surface boundary, and the perception of the boundary with your body is ambiguous. Similarly, there is no material surface to the boundary surface that appears in the window. In reality, light cannot solidify into a spherical mass in the universe. Therefore, the spheres do not physically exist. This is a Cognitive Sculpture that appears only in the human world of perception. The materials are light and the environment. And the subject of its creation is the viewer's own body and perception. The spheres cannot exist on their own - their existence is a phenomenon created in relation to their environment. The phenomenon created by the environment is shaped for the first time by the dynamic body and perception of the viewer, becoming a sculpture in their cognitive world. The artwork explores the possibility of a new form of existence distinct from material existence, and questions the very nature of existence.
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The subject of its creation is the viewer's own body and perception.
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About teamLab
teamLab (f. 2001) is an international art collective. Their collaborative practice seeks to navigate the confluence of art, science, technology, and the natural world. Through art, the interdisciplinary group of specialists, including artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians, and architects, aims to explore the relationship between the self and the world, and new forms of perception. In order to understand the world around them, people separate it into independent entities with perceived boundaries between them. teamLab seeks to transcend these boundaries in our perceptions of the world, of the relationship between the self and the world, and of the continuity of time. Everything exists in a long, fragile yet miraculous, borderless continuity. teamLab’s works are in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Amos Rex, Helsinki; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; Borusan Contemporary Art Collection, Istanbul; and Asia Society Museum, New York, among others.