Ice Time Tunnel

This temporary installation was made for an exhibition of works in snow and ice in the far north, as a collaboration between the Japanese architect and a Japanese artist.

Working with ice, a fleeting and formless material, the architect aimed for a pure, minimal form built on a continuous curved line. Inside that geometry of ice, a sequence of light and air unfolds.

The idea of sequence answers the artist’s work, whose theme is time, from past to present and from present to future. His glowing counters set into the ice join the passage of space with the passage of time.