Your sound galaxy

Your sound galaxy presents a ring of twenty-seven suspended polyhedra, which can be thought of as nine ‘families’ of three related forms. In these families, two of the three polyhedra are duals of one another, meaning that the number of vertices on the one polyhedron is equal to the number of faces on the other. Combining the two duals creates the third polyhedron, or the child of the family, which is called a compound. The dual solids are arranged in the outer circle. The compounds inhabit the inner circle, and are aligned between their respective parents. There is an intuitive visual logic between a given pair of dual solids and their compound and a natural evolutionary increase in complexity as the forms develop around the ring. The use of geometric principles allows Eliasson to produce works whose forms are determined by objec-tive principles rather than his own personal decisions, allowing the work to belong as much to the viewer as to the artist. The work responds to visitors’ presence – as visitors walk beneath the artwork, light sparkles within the work in reply to their movements.