在这幅充满神秘气息的作品中，一双玫瑰色的眼睛若隐若现地藏匿于叶片与昆虫之间，仿佛自然本身在默默注视着我们。眼睛色彩柔和却异常醒目，在一片绿意与生机中形成独特的视觉焦点。它既不像捕食者那般锋利，也不同于人类的凝视，而是带着一种温柔又疏离的好奇。周围的叶片层叠交错，昆虫或停驻、或飞舞，构成一个看似宁静却充满生命张力的生态舞台。这种画面让人产生微妙的不安与着迷，仿佛闯入一个被自然守护的秘密世界。艺术家通过对细节的精致描绘与色彩的巧妙运用，打破了人与自然、观察者与被观察者之间的界限。这不仅是一幅画，更是一种体验，一次对目光与存在的深层凝视。

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.”