Olafur Eliasson | Weather Project: Indoor Artificial Sun and Fog

On the end wall of a huge industrial factory exhibition hall, hundreds of single-frequency yellow sodium lamps are arranged in a semicircle, then reflected by a full mirrored ceiling to form a complete circle—an indoor sun. Fine mist is continuously released into the air, making the light paths visible, and the entire space is immersed in a single wavelength of yellow, reducing all colors to shades of yellow and black. People lie on the floor, seeing themselves as distant small dots in the mirrored ceiling. The work deliberately exposes its mechanisms: approaching reveals the light tubes and fog machines. Shot with a wide-angle lens, simultaneously capturing the light in the mist, the reflections of people in the mirror, and the scale. Avoid: using full-color lighting, hiding equipment, removing the mist, not having a mirrored ceiling.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

在一座巨大的工業廠房展廳的端牆上,以數百盞單頻黃色鈉燈排成一個半圓,再以整面天花的鏡面把它反射成一個完整的圓——一顆室內的太陽。空氣中持續施放細霧,讓光線的路徑可見,整個空間浸在單一波長的黃色裡,所有的顏色都被還原成黃與黑的濃淡。人躺在地板上,在天花的鏡中看見自己成為遠方的小點。作品刻意讓機制完全外露:走近就看得見燈管與霧機。廣角拍攝,霧中的光、鏡中的人影與尺度同時可見。避免:使用全彩照明、隱藏設備、拿掉霧、天花不做鏡面。