Documented artwork / temporary light and sound sculpture

Evanescent

A temporary installation of oversized bubble forms that reflect changing color and light. Visitors move among the sculptures, which use the familiar fragility of a bubble to explore transience and shared public space.

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Year / version: 2021 (first exhibition, according to the artist interview published by Chicago Botanic Garden)
Materials: colour-reflecting film
Documented setting: both
Dimensions: Not documented
Dimensions apply to: Not documented
Availability: Unconfirmed

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Installation history

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2026 (June 6–September 20)
Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, and Farm on Ogden, Chicago
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2026 (March 5–22)
Aotea Square, Auckland
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How this work was made and presented

Chicago Botanic Garden Shimmering seasonal presentation

Distribute the encounter across a garden

Chicago Botanic Garden’s Shimmering program placed Atelier Sisu’s Evanescent forms in five locations, including garden areas, a waterside setting and the Farm on Ogden in Chicago. Its visitor information connected the installation to seasonal music, family activities and other garden programs. This is a useful precedent for thinking beyond a single central cluster. A host considering multiple locations could plan each encounter within the existing visit, while making the relationship between dispersed installations clear through interpretation, wayfinding and the timing of associated activities.

Chicago Botanic Garden — Shimmering ↗ · Reviewed 2026-10-10

For your project brief

Would one gathering place or several linked encounters better serve the existing visitor route?

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Atelier Sisu interview published by Chicago Botanic Garden in 2026

Let changing surroundings participate in the work

In the garden’s interview, Atelier Sisu’s Zara Pasfield and Renzo Larriviere describe Evanescent’s origins in the uncertainty of the pandemic and its first Australian presentation in 2021. They connect the bubble-like forms to impermanence and discuss reflections shifting with sun and surrounding foliage. This offers an interpretive reason to evaluate the work over time, not only from a single image. For a landscape host, seasonal vegetation, weather and different viewing hours could become part of the experience described to visitors.

Chicago Botanic Garden — interview with Atelier Sisu ↗ · Reviewed 2026-10-10

For your project brief

Which changes in light and landscape would visitors notice across repeated visits?

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Light art installations ↗Sound art installations ↗