‘Iridescent dewdrop’, 2025, emerged from Olafur’s ongoing exploration of optical devices, mirrors, and lenses.

As viewers walk around the work, they experience themselves in a visually unfamiliar manner, echoed by multiple, inverted reflections. By magnifying thus the viewers’ every movement, The dewdrop agora invites them to retrace and examine their perceptual orientation.⁠

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Packed tightly on a steel support, silvered colour-effect glass spheres of various sizes seem, from a distance, to burst forth from the wall with the apparent disorganisation of organic phenomena – like a cluster of water droplets or a clutch of eggs. As a result, the spheres change colour and quality in synch as you move past the work. Approached frontally, the colour-effect glass reflects an inverted fisheye view of the surrounding environment (photo: Jens Ziehe).
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