The Ephemeral Collection was inspired by 2020 when the world stopped, and everything we took for granted started to disappear. Atelier Sisu endeavoured to communicate this feeling of transient beauty and the need to live in the moment through the idea of the bubble.
Sydney-based design studio Atelier Sisu explores the intersection between art and architecture, transforming spaces with captivating, large-scale installations that enchant and reinvent spaces.
Ephemeral is an adjective, meaning the quality of being fleeting or vanishing quickly; impermanence.
Evanescent is an immersive, light, and sound temporary environment that aims to capture the concept of ephemerality and transience is a visual form: the bubble.
By day, Ephemeral is made from a colour- reflecting dichroic film that reacts to the changing light of the sun as it moves across the sky, causing a rainbow of reflection across the ground and a unique picture from every angle.
This art-chitecture connects audiences with their environment and is designed to be truly inclusive. By emulating the ethereal quality and magic of bubbles, Atelier Sisu’s Evanescent appeals to our universal playfulness and childlike wonder, the work encourages the audience to consider the world around them as a space of transience and fragility, like that of a bubble.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Atelier Sisu is an award-winning Sydney based art practice led by Peruvian sculptor and industrial designer Renzo B. Larriviere and architectural designer and artist Zara Pasfield.
The pair work with a multi-disciplinary team to create experiential environments, installations and unique sculptural pieces. Their direction of work sits between the fields of art and architecture (art-chitecture), with particular focus in the realm of public art.
Image credit: Ephemeral Collection by Atelier Sisu