Artist Olafur Eliasson engages with his sprawling mirrored artwork in the Qatari desert



Rising from the horizon against the rugged desert landscape of Northern Qatar, prolific artist Olafur Eliasson has constructed a breathtaking experiment in perception for his 2022 site-specific artwork Shadows travelling on the sea of the day. Accessed by driving north of Doha, past Fort Zubarah, and the historic village of Ain Mohamed, a sprawling network of sculptural elements unfolds across the sand – supporting a series of vast mirrors, each reflecting its own semicircular support as a complete circle.…read more at nowness.com

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