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EXPOSITION PASSÉE

2023.01.25(Wed) - 05.21(Sun)Farol Santander São Paulo, Sao Paulo

EXPOSITION PASSÉE

2023.01.25(Wed) - 05.21(Sun)Farol Santander São Paulo, Sao Paulo

teamLab: Impermanent Flowers Floating in an Eternal Sea

teamLab has been exploring how humans understand the world, its perceived boundaries, and the perception of continuity itself.

This exhibition comprises artworks based on teamLab’s concept Ultrasubjective Space.

When the world is cropped by lenses or perspective in a moving image, the space in that image appears to exist on the other side of the screen, and the screen becomes a boundary. When our viewpoint is fixed, we lose sense of our body, and because our perception is narrowed to focus on a single point, we are easily put in a hypnotic state where intent and critical spirit are lost.

The screens of works based on Ultrasubjective Space do not become a boundary, blurring the borders between the space of the viewer and the artwork. Because the viewpoint can move, we can walk freely while looking at the image, and by not creating a focus, it becomes possible to expand perspective infinitely. The eye is not guided anywhere, enabling us to view the image with freedom of intent.

The flowers in this exhibition repeat the cycle of life and death in perpetuity, blooming and scattering under the influence of visitors. By making people a part of the artwork, the boundaries between the world of the artwork and that of the viewer are blurred.

In Continuous Life and Death at the Now of Eternity, flowers change daily along with the real-time seasons. The artwork world becomes brighter and darker together with Sao Paolo’s sunset and sunrise.

By actively perceiving the world through their entire body, we hope that visitors will experience the space and time created by artworks that are continuous with the body without boundaries.

TRAVAUX

Flowers and People, Cannot be Controlled but Live Together – A Whole Year per Hour

The seasons co-exist and change gradually across the installation space.
Flowers blossom according to the seasons, and the places where they grow gradually change.

The flowers bud, grow, and blossom before they begin to wither and their petals eventually scatter, repeating the cycle of life and death in perpetuity. If a person stays still, the flowers surrounding them grow and bloom more abundantly than usual, but if people touch or step on the flowers, they shed their petals, wither, and die all at once. Sometimes the flowers cross the boundaries of other works and bloom in other spaces, but scatter or die due to the influence of other works.

The artwork is not a pre-recorded image that is played back; it is created by a computer program that continuously renders the work in real time. The interaction between people and the installation causes continuous change in the artwork, so previous visual states can never be replicated, and will never reoccur. The picture at this moment can never be seen again.

In spring in the Kunisaki Peninsula, there are many cherry blossoms in the mountains and canola blossoms at their base. A visit to this region led teamLab to wonder how much of these flowers were planted by people and how much of them were native to the environment. It was a place of great serenity and contentment. The expansive body of flowers is an ecosystem influenced by human intervention, and the boundary between the work of nature and the work of humans is unclear. Rather than nature and humans being in conflict, a healthy ecosystem is one that includes people. In the past, people understood that they could not grasp nature in its entirety, and that it is not possible to control nature. People lived more closely aligned to the rule of nature, which perhaps created a comfortable natural environment. We believe that these valleys hold faint traces of this premodern relationship with nature that once existed, and we hope to explore a form of human intervention based on the premise that nature cannot be controlled.

Black Waves

All oceans are connected to each other, and so are all the waves in this world.

In classical East Asian art, waves are often expressed using a combination of lines. These waves created by lines allow us to realize that each wave is one part of a larger flow, and conveys life as though the waves are a living entity.

When the waves rise, we can feel a powerful breath of life, as though life is blooming. It feels as though each wave has a life of its own. But when the waves collapse and disappear, we realize, with a sense of fragility, that they were a part of the ocean. And that ocean is connected to all of the other oceans. In other words, all of the waves in the world are connected to each other.
The waves seem alive because life is like a rising wave. It is a miraculous phenomenon that continuously emerges from a single, continuous ocean.

The waves are expressed through a continuous body of countless water particles. The interactions of particles are calculated, and then the movement of water is simulated in three-dimensional space. Lines are created along the trajectories of the water particles, and drawn on the surface layer of the three-dimensional waves.

The lines are created with what teamLab refers to as Ultrasubjective Space. In contrast to space that is created through, or cut out by, lenses and perspective, Ultrasubjective Space does not fix the viewer’s viewpoint and in turn frees the body. The wall that the waves are seen on does not become a boundary between the viewer and the artwork, and the artwork space is continuous with the space of the viewer’s body.

Continuous Life and Death at the Now of Eternity

Flowers are eternally repeating the process of life and death.
The flowers that bloom change daily along with the real-time seasons. As the sun rises where the artwork is located, the world of the artwork becomes brighter, and as the sun sets, it becomes darker.
The real time in which the viewer exists, the time of the city, and the time of the repeated life and death of the flowers, all of these different times intersect and overlap, while the viewer’s body, the city, and the world of the artwork remain connected. The artwork space is an overlap of different times and space.
The artwork is not a pre-recorded image that is played back: it is created by a computer program that continuously renders the artwork in real time. The artwork is continuously changing, so previous visual states can never be replicated and will never reoccur. The picture at this moment can never be seen again.

Bombing de Fleurs

The flowers drawn by visitors appear on the walls and grow in clusters.People’s drawings give life to the flowers that then bloom, scatter, and die. As the petals scatter, their trajectories draw new lines.If people place their hands on the wall and hold still, more flowers bloom. If they move their hands, the flowers scatter their petals all at once.

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Informations sur le Lieu

teamLab: Impermanent Flowers Floating in an Eternal Sea

Durée

2023.01.25(Wed) - 05.21(Sun)

Horaires

9:00 - 20:00 (Last Entry 19:00)

Fermé

Monday

Website

Farol Santander São Paulo

Accès

Farol Santander São Paulo
R. João Brícola, 24 - Centro Histórico de São Paulo, São Paulo - SP, 01014-900

ARTISTE

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.

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Biographical Documents

teamLab is represented by Pace Gallery, Martin Browne Contemporary and Ikkan Art.