在这幅描绘“陷入激烈争斗的狐狸们”的作品中，动感十足的构图与强烈的情绪张力交织在一起，捕捉了野性世界中瞬息万变的冲突时刻。两只狐狸或多只，张牙舞爪、毛发炸立，眼神中充满防备与怒意，仿佛下一秒就会扑咬在一起。画面背景可能模糊成一片狂乱的树林或雪地，进一步凸显出主体间的剧烈对抗。这不仅是动物之间的领地之争，也是一种关于生存与力量的原始本能的展现。艺术家通过敏锐的观察与细腻的描绘，将这一瞬间凝固成永恒，提醒我们：即便是看似优雅灵动的狐狸，也有其不可忽视的野性一面。这些争斗虽短暂，却富有生命的真实与张力，在喧嚣中显露出自然界冷酷却又充满活力的一面。

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.”