Tokyo-based French architect, artist, and designer Emmanuelle Moureaux makes her Dutch debut with 100 colors no.45 “8760 hours”, an installation for art museum M. in Almere. The spatial installation will be on display from July 20th in the museum’s pavilion in new town Almere. Visitors walking through the installation will experience the passage of time in unique and colorful ways.
Emmanuelle Moureaux has lived in Tokyo since 1996, and it was the vibrant colors of the city that inspired her to create a palette of 100 colors that she developed herself. Based on this, she makes installations worldwide under the name ‘100 colors’ that visitors can walk in, under, or through. Through her design concept of “shikiri”, which literally means “dividing (creating) space with colors”, she uses colors as three-dimensional elements and layers to shape and compose spaces. With her work, she wants people to experience colors with all their senses to become more aware of the colorful, everyday environment around them.
This installation, commissioned by the museum, comprises 8760 paper clocks in 100 colors, with each clock representing one hour. Together, all of the clocks depict the number of hours in one year. The installation itself is stationary, but the hands of the clocks appear to be moving as visitors walk through.
M.’s round pavilion was designed by architects duo Studio Ossidiana as a round observatory in which the solstices can be experienced. The pavilion, combined with Moureaux’s installation, creates the illusion of an instrument in which visitors experience the concept of time, its passage, and the influence of color upon it.
“M. experiments with making art accessible to become a museum where everyone feels at home,” explains Olga Ruitenbeek, Artistic Director of M. “Almost everyone can see color, but what color does to you is very personal. Emmanuelle Moureaux’s installations demonstrate this time and time again. With 100 colors no.45 “8760 hours” we want visitors to look differently at their environment. The effect of the explosion of colors in which the visitors find themselves will be taken outside afterwards. It will allow them to look differently at the colors around them.”
Photography by Erwin Budding.
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