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ABU DHABI (ALETIHAD)
teamLab Phenomena Abu Dhabi officially opened its doors to the public in the Saadiyat Cultural District on April 18.
The 17,000 square metre multi-sensory art experience is operated by Miral Experiences, the leading creator of immersive destinations and experiences in Abu Dhabi, and Tokyo-based art collective, teamLab, in collaboration with the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi).
The ground-breaking project will include massive transformative exhibits that take guests on a sensory-rich journey, offering a dynamic and ever-evolving guest experience. The exhibits engage sight, sound, and touch, encouraging guests to expand the way they feel, connect and interact with the world around them.
Here are some of the exhibits to marvel at the exhibition, open from 10am to 7pm daily:
Morphing Continuum
Sculptural existence is born in space. It takes form on the ground as a mass and rises from the ground. Existence is born in the air, transcending the very concept of mass, and continues to exist mid-air, maintained in place. The boundaries of these existences are ambiguous, and the glowing spheres that compose them are continuously changing. Even when people fully immerse themselves in this sculpture, its existence remains intact.
Levitation Void
The order of energy is born and maintained by the environment. And the order of energy gives birth to a new existence. The existence of the order of energy transcends the conventional concept of an object made of matter. Its structure is flexible and soft like a life form, and as long as the environment is maintained, it will repair itself even if it is broken.
Spontaneous Order in Chaos
Through simple, localised interactions between colour strokes and people, spontaneous order continuously emerges on its own, even as everything moves toward disorder. Order and disorder, existence and the whole, continuously flow into one another without boundaries, as they rise and fall, collide and merge.
Light Vortex
The existence of an ocean vortex is made up of the same water, both inside and outside. The collection of light that flows from the outside to the inside and from the inside to the outside creates order in the central area, and a biocosmos appears.
Light Sculpture - Flow
A group of sculptures composed of an order formed by a collection of light that flows continuously from the outside to the inside and from the inside to the outside.
Obverse and Reverse
The circular, colourful portal appears as a colorless white light membrane when viewed from the backside. When a person attempts to move behind it from any position, the world of colours recedes.
Absolute Front Torus
This torus always faces the front, whether observed from the side or from below. It exists as a torus within the viewer's cognitive world. We refer to such artworks that exist in the perceived world as Cognitive Sculpture. When it exists within perception, it is considered to exist.
Wind Form and Waves
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 and waves, transforming into a sculpture. Images created by camera lenses and perspective represent the illusion of space, depicting a three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional plane.
Biocosmos
The movement of hundreds of thousands of birds is beautiful and mysterious, like a single, giant life form. This artwork portrays this spatiotemporal existence.
Circulating Universe of Water 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 is covered by the flow. Images created by camera lenses and perspective represent the illusion of space, depicting a three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional plane.
Flutter of Butterflies
This piece is called Flutter of Butterflies. However, it is not an illusion of space; instead, the space of the artwork exists as it is in the space where people's bodies are, filling the space with butterflies. Images created by camera lenses and perspective represent the illusion of space, depicting a three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional plane.
Graffiti Nature and Beating Earth
Colour in a creature on the paper provided and see the picture you have drawn come to life and move in front of you. Living things eat and are eaten by other living things in one shared ecosystem. The creatures you draw will multiply if they eat other living things, but they will die and disappear if they do not eat enough, or if they are eaten by other creatures.
Autonomous Abstraction
A spontaneous order phenomenon occurs between dots that are close to each other, and their cycle of hues and the rhythm at which they blink gradually synchronise. The dots of lights emit a tone each time they blink. The tones can be heard continuously throughout the space; what sounds like music is solely created by the continuous tones produced by the blinking lights.
Massless Amorphous Sculpture
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.
Continuous Trajectories in Flux and Form
Multiple viewpoints are placed within the space of the artwork, and the space around the viewpoints is cut out and flattened using Ultrasubjective Space. The viewer's viewpoint is not fixed, and they can look not only left and right but also in the depth direction, moving freely in all directions, exploring a physical perception in which the whole body is immersed in the world of the artwork.
Floating Microcosms
This is a series from teamLabBall (2009). Featuring soft and flexible sculptures that relate to people's bodies, sculptures that change the relationship between people and the space through the influence of people's behaviour, and spatial sculptures with ambiguous boundaries.
The Accumulation of Time
The water level in the space changes over time, altering the shape of the land as time progresses. Eventually, the land becomes covered by water, blurring the boundaries between people's bodies and the artwork.
Megaliths in the Roots Garden
Megaliths appear in various locations around the world, their spacetime is interconnected. Roots of trees growing in the surrounding area continue directly down to the bottom floor. The floor is an environment where forests connect through a network of mycorrhizal fungi, allowing trees to recognize and share nutrients with each other.
Waterfall of Light Particles
This artwork is a series based on a waterfall in the mountains of Shikoku, Waterfall of Light Particles - Deep in the Mountains of Shikoku (2016-2017).
Floating Lamps in Spontaneous Order
Each Floating Lamp on the water glows with its own rhythm. Over time they mutually influence nearby lamps and Tea in Spontaneous Order, starting a spontaneous order phenomenon, and the rhythms of their flickering become closer to each other.
Tea in Spontaneous Order - Dynamic Steady State Colour
Tea in Spontaneous Order interacts with nearby Tea in Spontaneous Order and the Floating Lamps, causing a spontaneous order phenomenon, in which the flickering rhythms converge. The artwork is born when the tea is made, and disappears when the tea is drunk.
Sketch Factory
This is a factory where the creatures that you draw in Graffiti Nature and Beating Earth will be made into an original product such as a badge, hand towel, T-shirt, tote bag, or papercraft, to be taken home.
Cognitive Solidified Spark
Spheres made of accumulated rays of light. The thin red light radiates from the centrein infinite fine rays, creating its spherical shape. The light source remains motionless, yet the countless lines emitting from it wriggle continuously. What is this sphere? Why do the rays of lines wriggle? Our world is within us.
Living Crystallised Light
The artwork is just ordinary water. The artwork does not exist by itself; the distinctive phenomenon created by the unique environment is the existence of the artwork. We refer to such artworks that exist in the perceived world as Cognitive Sculpture. When it exists within perception, it is considered to exist.
