Massless Suns and Dark Suns

teamLab, 2022-, Interactive Installation, Endless, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi

Massless Suns and Dark Suns

teamLab, 2022-, Interactive Installation, Endless, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi

We do not perceive the world we see, we see the world we perceive.

A group of countless spheres of light. When people approach the spheres, they shine brightly and the surrounding spheres respond one after the other.

When you widen your field of vision, spheres made of darkness also begin to appear, as though darkness has been solidified. However, these spheres of light and spheres of darkness do not exist. The spheres of darkness cannot even be captured on camera.

There is no material, such as glass, on the surface of the spheres; the spheres are made only of light. There is no material surface boundary, and the perception of the boundary with your body is ambiguous. In reality, light cannot solidify into a spherical mass in the universe. Therefore, the spheres do not physically exist.

This is a Cognitive Sculpture that appears only in the human world of perception. The materials are light and the environment. And the subject of its creation is the viewer's own body and perception.

The spheres cannot exist on their own - its existence is a phenomenon created in relation to its environment. The phenomenon created by the environment is shaped for the first time by the dynamic body and perception of the viewer, becoming a sculpture in their cognitive world.

The artwork explores the possibility of a new form of existence distinct from material existence, and questions the very nature of existence.