When viewing the works in “Contact,” people are similarly held in place, interacting with physical space in some new way. In Map for Unthought Thoughts, sticks are arranged around a light source in the middle of a dark room, creating a striated pattern across the floor and a geometric motif on the walls. As visitors enter the room, their silhouettes are cast against the backdrop. The simpler Touch invites viewers to pick up a hunk of meteorite. As they handle the otherworldly material, a striking blue shadow is cast on the nearby wall. On the roof, Eliasson installed an apparatus that tracks the sun and, at certain hours of the day, sheds light onto a multifaceted geometric sculpture he designed for the building. The exhibition, as Eliasson explains, intends to “address that which lies at the edge of our senses and knowledge.”
Through February 16, 2015, at Fondation Louis Vuitton, 8 Avenue du Mahatma Gandhi, Bois de Boulogne, Paris; fondationlouisvuitton.fr