The Unilever Series: Olafur Eliasson: The Weather Project
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Olafur Eliasson
The Weather Project 2003
© Olafur Eliasson
Photo: © Tate 2003
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The subject of the weather has long shaped the content of everyday conversation. The eighteenth-century writer Samuel Johnson famously remarked ‘It is commonly observed, that when two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather; they are in haste to tell each other, what each must already know, that it is hot or cold, bright or cloudy, windy or calm.’
In The Weather Project, the fourth in the annual Unilever Series of commissions for the Turbine Hall, Olafur Eliasson takes this ubiquitous subject in his installation as the basis for exploring ideas about experience, mediation and representation.
In The Weather Project, the fourth in the annual Unilever Series of commissions for the Turbine Hall, Olafur Eliasson takes this ubiquitous subject in his installation as the basis for exploring ideas about experience, mediation and representation.
