Padimai Art & Tech Studio is an artistic laboratory that enables the registry of ambiguous encounters that is propelled by ideas and artistic practices. Located within the intersection of art and technology, the Studio initiates mediation between artists, thinkers and technologists. The Studio’s expertise facilitates a networked independent digital infrastructure in response to the spectrum of artistic synapses that can be experienced as reflective contemplations through the digital landscape. Exploring blockchain technology through digital inscriptions and Non-fungible Tokens (NFTs), the Studio examines the relationship between art, artistic research, emerging technology and digital archiving.
-Olafur Eliasson
19 November 2025 – 31 March 2026
Virtual-reality installation, audio
Virtual-reality installation, audio
A new artwork using virtual-reality technology, Your view matter transports visitors into a series of six spaces, five of which take the form of the Platonic solids, while the sixth is a sphere. Known since ancient times, the Platonic solids are the only geometric forms that can be produced using identical, regular polygons for faces. These five forms―the tetrahedron, octahedron, icosahedron, dodecahedron, and cube―have been accorded special significance in philosophy, religion, science, and alchemy over the millennia.
In this work, visitors journey through these spaces in virtual reality, accompanied by a pulsing minimalist soundtrack created by the artist himself. They can examine the complex geometry from within the forms by moving around and looking in all directions. The walls and ceilings―some of which are quite colourful, while others appear in stark black and white―scintillate with ever-changing moirés, distortions that arise wherever similar patterns are overlaid and clash. As visitors move about the virtual spaces of the artwork, the patterns change in response to their shifting perspectives, encouraging them in turn to move even more. In the tetrahedron―the first space visitors encounter―the moiré arises as a result of the resolution limits of the virtual-reality headset, while in the other forms, the patterns are created through animation. The moiré patterns, and thus the artwork, exist only in the viewer's perceptual apparatus through the meeting up of their physical bodies with the digitally programmed space.
Eliasson, Olafur. Olafur Eliasson: Nel tuo tempo. Exhibition conceived by Olafur Eliasson, curated by Arturo Galansino, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and Studio Olafur Eliasson, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 22 Sept. 2022–22 Jan. 2023. p. 104.
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