The Way of the Sea in the Memory of Topography - Colors of Life
The Way of the Sea in the Memory of Topography - Colors of Life
This work begins when the shoal of fish from The Way of the Sea enters Memory of Topography, a space that consists of different elevations. The work ends when the shoal of fish leaves the space and disappears.
The shoal of fish rendered in light swim freely around the space. People who enter this space are assigned a certain color, and when a fish passes by a person, it takes on the same color.
The transformative nature of the canvas and the continuous, dynamic behavior allow people to immerse themselves physically in the artwork, and the boundary between their body and the world is lost. As the shared world of the artwork changes due to the presence of each person in the space, everyone in the space begins to dissolve into the same world together.
The movement of thousands of fish is beautiful and mysterious, appearing like a single giant life form. The physiological mechanism of the movement of the shoal is shrouded in mystery, but the fact that it feels like a living organism intuitively suggests that there is a high level of order in space and time. teamLab would like to search for a new spatio-temporal form that can have a strong existence and a sense of life even if the constituent elements are temporally and spatially distant from each other. teamLab believes that we can seek a new form that can be felt as the same existence as long as the same order is maintained, even though spatially the same form will never be the same again, and even though the size of the object varies greatly over time.