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. Eliasson, born in Copenhagen in 1967, lives and works in Berlin and Copenhagen. Working with our perceptions of the natural environment, Eliasson's major works to date have often re-created natural phenomena, using only the simplest of easily-available materials. His installations exploit several senses, often including changes in temperature or light as crucial elements of their impact. Eliasson's new piece created an evocative relationship with the natural environment surrounding Dundee Contemporary Arts.

. Eliasson, born in Copenhagen in 1967, lives and works in Berlin and Copenhagen. Working with our perceptions of the natural environment, Eliasson's major works to date have often re-created natural phenomena, using only the simplest of easily-available materials. His installations exploit several senses, often including changes in temperature or light as crucial elements of their impact. Eliasson's new piece created an evocative relationship with the natural environment surrounding Dundee Contemporary Arts.

In the course of history one can observe how different models of perception and of relating to space replaced and necessitated one another, parallel with social, ideological, technical and other changes. In all given physical structures there are relationships in the form of socialisation potentials. For the individual, these models and relations can seem so natural that one can mistakenly assume that they are actual characteristics of our surroundings. These apparently wholly physical experiments with water and light, air and colour, often indirectly based on astrophysical and subatomic research and experiments, are therefore in reality also experiments with our models of perception and environment models and hence also with our social structures. With cultural technologies he restructures natural processes (the waterfall rises instead of falling down).

Eliasson's task is not simply to document the details of nature but to foster a more complete visual experience that transcends the subject. For fourteen days he repeatedly descended into the earth's narrow passageways. Being surrounded by the earth became an almost natural state for the artist, who learned to adapt to extreme isolation. ..

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