The mist inside your mind - by Philippa Linton
In January 2020, I went to Olafur Eliasson’s In Real Life exhibition at Tate Modern. Danish-Icelandic artist Eliasson creates hypnotically beautiful and powerful art installations. The exhibition included his Wavemachines , the Big Bang Fountain, the Little Sun (a little solar ball of renewable energy), structures of glacial ice and moss walls, Colour Experiments , the Structural Evolution Project … and a tunnel filled with fog called Your blind passenger . This was my favourite work. You enter a 45-foot corridor filled with artificial fog and fluorescent light which changes colour as you move forwards. The illusion is that the fog itself is changing colour, from white to yellow, then to orange, then bright blue. The fog is so thick you can barely see the people in front or behind you. You are wholly surrounded, encased in cool, glowing mist. It’s an immersive experience that challenges your senses, disorientating but also thrilling. What a prophetic picture though of the yea...