teamLab Phenomena Abu Dhabi | teamLab

The void that levitates in the air is not suspended by anything, nor does it have its own power. Its existence transcends the concept of mass, it levitates in the middle of the air, not on the ground or at the ceiling. At times it rises, and at times it sinks, yet remains floating in the air.At times, it starts to move and sometimes it falls to the ground. However, as if to repair its state, it slowly rises up again and remains levitating in the air.
An order of energy is generated at the center of the space by a phenomenon of a unique environment. The order of energy thus creates this sculptural entity. Let us call this existence High Order Sculpture. The artwork is inseparable from the environment and changes along with the environment. It transcends the conventional notions of physical objects—it sustains its existence mid-air, and naturally restores itself.

The only material substances present in this space are ordinary soap, water, and air. The bubbles are soap bubbles.
This floating, immense sculpture emerges from a sea of bubbles, transcending the very concept of mass. It neither sinks to the ground nor rises completely to the ceiling, but instead drifts in the middle of the space. The contours of its existence are ambiguous—it fragments into smaller pieces, but merges into a larger mass. Even when people fully immerse themselves in this sculpture, its existence remains intact. If broken by people, it naturally restores itself. However, when the sculpture is destroyed beyond what it can repair, it collapses, unable to recover. Even if people try to move or push this floating sculpture, they cannot do so, and if they stir up wind, the sculpture disperses entirely. Physical human actions cannot move the sculpture.
Objects such as stones and man-made creations maintain a stable structure independently. A stone, for instance, will remain unchanged even if placed in a sealed box, isolated from the outside world.In contrast, a vortex in the ocean will vanish in an instant if removed from its environment. Unlike a stone, a vortex does not sustain itself; it evolves with the surrounding currents, formed by water flowing continuously from the outside to the inside and from the inside to the outside of the vortex, changing along with the flow. Moreover, the boundaries of its existence are ambiguous, and there is no material distinction between the vortex and its surroundings.
Rather than a solid object, this sculpture is created by the order of energy generated by the phenomena of a unique environment. Let us call this existence created by the order of energy, a High Order Sculpture. The artwork is inseparable from the environment and changes along with the environment. It transcends the conventional notions of physical objects—it sustains its existence mid-air, having ambiguous boundaries, and it is able to maintain its shape even when people immerse themselves physically into the sculpture, naturally restoring itself even if the sculpture breaks.
By filling the space with soap bubbles, a distinct environment is created in which an order of energy is born. By doing so, a massive form emerges from this sea of bubbles that floats steadily in mid-air.

The movement of hundreds of thousands of birds is beautiful and mysterious, like a single, giant life form.
Even if each individual element is separated in space and time, when there is order among them, the individual elements may be recognized as a single entity that transcends space and time. Despite significant changes in shape or size on the surface, or even if the elements are replaced, this single existence will be maintained, and be recognized as the same entity. This spatiotemporal existence differs from physical matter, and will open up new possibilities of existence. This artwork portrays this spatiotemporal existence.

Artwork of the wind.The flow is influenced by the shape of the space and the presence of people, and it continuously interacts with and transforms in relation to all other flows in the artwork space. The flow is a continuum of countless interacting particles, and lines are drawn by the trajectories of these particles. 
This work is not an illusion of space; the artwork space exists as it is in the space where people's bodies are, and the space becomes enveloped in wind, transforming into a sculpture of wind.Images created by camera lenses and perspective represent the illusion of space, depicting a three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional plane. In this illusion, the three-dimensional space appears beyond the two-dimensional surface, and the viewers are in a different space from the three-dimensional space, making the two-dimensional plane a boundary. With this, the viewpoint is fixed, and the viewer’s body is absent. In contrast, this artwork does not create an illusion of space. Instead, the space of the artwork directly exists in the same space as the viewer's body. Walls and floors do not act as a boundary between the person and the space of the artwork, but rather, the space of the artwork integrates with the space in which the viewer's body exists. The viewpoint is not fixed, and their body remains free.