Your view matter, a new artwork using virtual reality technology, transports visitors into a series of six spaces, five of which take the form of the Platonic solids, while the sixth is a sphere. Known since ancient times, the Platonic solids – the tetrahedron, octahedron, icosahedron, dodecahedron, and cube – are geometrical forms that can be produced using identical, regular polygons for faces. In Your view matter, visitors journey through these spaces in virtual reality accompanied by a pulsing minimalist soundtrack created by the artist himself. They can examine the complex geometry from within the forms, by moving around and looking in all directions. The walls and ceilings – some of them colourful, others in stark black and white – scintillate with ever-changing moirés, distortions that arise wherever similar patterns are overlaid and clash. As visitors move about the virtual spaces of the artwork, the patterns change in response to their shifting perspectives, encouraging them in turn to move even more. The moiré patterns do not appear unless the viewer moves, thus underscoring the fact that the artwork only emerges in the visitors’ perceptual apparatuses through dynamic interaction, in the meeting-up of the visitor’s physical body and the digitally programmed space.

Commissioned by MetaKovan and produced in collaboration with Acute Art, the artwork is available on yourviewmatter.art to experience free of charge in VR. Your view matter forms an integral part of the exhibition Olafur Eliasson: Nel tuo tempo (In your time), at Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, and is set to be exhibited at further locations internationally, including in India.