Brooke DiDonato 的摄影作品以其超现实而情绪化的风格广受瞩目，她擅长将日常场景变成心理空间的延伸，用扭曲、错位与视觉幻象揭示内心的复杂情绪。在一次访谈中，Brooke 分享了她对创作的理解与灵感来源。她说，摄影对她而言，是一种情绪的外化方式，是将潜意识具象化的过程。她的画面常常将人物部分隐藏或嵌入环境中，让观者产生不安与好奇的双重感受，这种处理源于她对身份、现实与幻觉之间模糊边界的持续探索。Brooke 表示，她灵感的源泉来自日常的细节、不经意的梦境，甚至是一次走神时的念头。通过镜头，她不断拆解与重组现实，让观众重新思考自己在空间中的存在感。这场对话不仅揭示了她的创作思维，也让人更理解她那些美丽却令人迷失的影像世界。
Usually when a museum is flooded with water, something has gone seriously wrong. But at the Fondation Beyeler just outside the Swiss city of Basel, the flooding of the museum is all part of the show: a new site-specific installation called Life by the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson.
The artist has removed one side of the Renzo Piano-designed building (with the architect’s blessing) and let the feature pond—usually separated from the climate-controlled interior by a large glass wall—into the museum. Visitors can navigate the waters, which are up to 80cm deep, using a series of walkways that run in and out of the building. At night, the interior is lit up with blue light.
Eliasson has also dyed the water a fluorescent green and filled it with pond plants, including water lilies and shellflowers selected by the landscape architect Günther Vogt. The water has been coloured using uranine, an organic dye that is commonly used to observe water currents, and which Eliasson has used previously for his Green River (1998) work where he dyed rivers in cities such as Stockholm, Tokyo and Los Angeles.
In an accompanying artist statement, Eliasson writes: “Together with the museum, I am giving up control over the artwork, so to speak, handing it over to human and non-human visitors, to plants, microorganisms, the weather, the climate—many of these elements that museums usually work very hard to keep out.”
The southern side of the building will be open to the elements for the duration of the show, which ends in July. Eliasson writes that “even if no human visitors are in the space, other beings—insects, bats, or birds, for instance—can fly through or take up temporary abode within it.” This possibility is very much part of the work, with the artist adding that when he first spoke to the museum’s director Sam Keller about ideas for the show, he thought to himself: “Why don’t we invite everyone to the show? Let’s invite the planet—plants and various species”.
The show is open 24 hours a day. “Visitors can access the installation at any time. After 9.30pm they do not need a ticket,” says a spokeswoman. She adds that, in terms of non-human visitors, so far there have been “insects, spiders, ducks, a goose and cats.”