Shadows Travelling on the Sea of the Day
Ring of mirrored steel shelters in open desert, reflecting sand and sky into illusory complete circles.
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This guide to Shadows Travelling on the Sea of the Day, a ring of mirrored steel shelters standing alone in Qatar's desert, traces how Qatar's billion-dollar-a-year art program brought the artist Olafur Eliasson to the Gulf for the first time in 2022. It follows how the piece's silvered underside completes a shape the steel frame only half-draws, and why Qatar chose to scatter twenty of these shelters across open desert rather than housing one behind glass downtown. Stand beneath the shelter and look straight up at the reflection.
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