Installation

May 18, 2025

Billowing ‘Orb’ Held Together by Over 200,000 Rivets Casts Dramatic Shadow at Google Campus

Rising nearly 33 feet, The Orb is a centerpiece of Google's Charleston East Campus in Mountain View, California. Created by Marc Fornes of THEVERYMANY, its sculptural design is a beautiful marriage of artistic intent and engineering. The thin aluminum structure, held together by over 217,000 rivets, serves as both a pavilion and a public art installation, blurring the line between art and architecture.

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April 27, 2025

Iridescent Installation Catches the Shifting Light of the Californian Desert

In Korean culture, bottaris have long served as traditional sacks, their fabric-encased bodies perfect for gathering and storing belongings. Though maybe unassuming at first, these bundles are a prominent theme throughout Kimsooja’s creative practice, whose work revolves around cultural symbolism, light, movement, and interconnectedness. The Korean artist’s newest installation is, as she says, a “bottari of light,” specially created for this year’s Desert X exhibition in California’s Coachella Valley.

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April 10, 2025

Milan Design Week 2025: Google Teams up With Light Artist for Fascinating Interactive Installation

For Milan Design Week, Google Design Studio has teamed up with artist Lachlan Turzcan for an immersive installation that transforms light into something tangible. The work, Lucida (I-IV), is presented in the context of Google's Making the Invisible Visible exhibition, which aims to reveal how abstract ideas become tangible forms. With Lucida, Turzcan hits on this theme with several veils of light that fill an enormous space.

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My Modern Met

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