Visionary artist Olafur Eliasson has created an Algae Window consisting of glass spheres arranged according to the structure of diatoms – a type of single-celled algae.
Installed in the Kunsthaus in Zurich, Switzerland, the glass spheres of the Algae Window invert views of the outside world so that visitors see themselves upside down and small.
“Directly behind the wall and the spheres is a window; vivid, miniature, inverted views of the scene outside the gallery thus appear in and inhabit each sphere. The composition of the work closely resembles the structure of one type of the single-celled algae known as diatoms, which remove large amounts of carbon from the atmosphere.”
