Artist field note

Olafur Eliasson

Nature rebuilt as an experience we become conscious of having.

Appears inNature
Riverbed by Olafur Eliasson
Art Institute of Chicago · Public domainSource ↗

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Riverbed

2014

A rocky stream is built inside a museum. Landscape is displaced into architecture, making both feel newly artificial.

The five in one idea

Across these five works, the artist changes not just the image but the terms on which we look at it.