this installation prickles my brain. makes it move.
the installation in Berlin holds an amount of pleasant and thoughtful weight within sightseers and city folk alike. the installation begins with a cool blue light that impersonates the sky preparing to host a vibrant sunset, with smooth oranges, velvet pinks and vibrant reds — the colours the German capital has lacked in the recent, unusual summers that Berlin endure.
the spectacular presentation submerges audiences in a transfixing, shadow-less cavern, that creates the illusion of a secluded, dry sunset and not the city’s damp, soaked reality found outside the illuminated walls. by coinciding with the natural process of the country’s sunset, Turrell alignes the indulgence, ego and superficialities that surround his work with the natural, beautiful order of the outside world.