Beijing: Feelings are Facts

Artist Olafur Eliasson has teamed up with architect Ma Yansong of MAD Architects for the site-specific exhibition ‘Feelings are Facts’ at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing. The collaborative installation  consists of a space in which the artists fuse light, color, water and temperature in which the viewers perceptions, orientations and sensations are challenged. If you don’t get a chance to visit, there are some great images over at Designboom.

The work recalls Eliasson’s ‘The Weather Project’ at the Tate Modern, London in and also Antony Gormley’s ‘Blind Light’ exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London.

We’ll try and visit the show later in the week when we’re in Beijing.

Extra art fact: the show shares the same title as Yvonne Rainer’s autobiography – she famously co-founded the Judson Dance Theater and worked with American minimalist artist Robert Morris, who was strongly influenced by phenomenology – so a nice link to this current show.

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