Forest of Proliferating Immense Life

teamLab, 2023, Interactive Digital Installation, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi

Forest of Proliferating Immense Life

teamLab, 2023, Interactive Digital Installation, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi

Multiple seasons exist simultaneously, changing gradually across the installation space. The seasonal flowers of the year repeat the cycle of life and death, proliferating and dying out in perpetuity, and the places where they grow change. When people touch the flowers, the petals scatter and fall away.

The space of the artwork is created with what teamLab refers to as Ultrasubjective Space. In contrast to spaces that are created through, or in other words 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 flowers 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.