Olafur Eliasson's 'Y/our Future Is Now' Opens at Serralves Museum in Porto

Olafur Eliasson's solo exhibition 'Y/our Future Is Now' at the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto presents five works that prioritize perceptual instability over spectacle. The show runs through June 14, 2020, and includes indoor and outdoor installations. In the central atrium, 'Yellow forest' features birch trees arranged in a circle with a lighting device that shifts leaf colors to gray, black, and yellow, created with landscape architect Günther Vogt and referencing Iceland's greenhouse agriculture. 'The listening dimension (orbit 1, orbit 2, orbit 3)' uses mirrors and reflective surfaces to create disorienting spatial effects. In the park, three new sculptures include 'The curious vortex', a steel pavilion inspired by natural vortices, hurricanes, and Moorish architecture, echoing 19th-century European garden pavilions. 'Human time is movement (winter, spring, summer)' comprises three steel spirals challenging Euclidean geometry. 'Arctic tree horizon' consists of logs collected from Icelandic shores, partly painted black to recall tar used on boats, addressing climate change and natural migration. Eliasson praised the museum's educational program, which teaches children composting and botany. The museum building was designed by Pritzker Prize winner Álvaro Siza in 1999. The exhibition was curated by Philippe Vergne, Marta Moreira de Almeida, and Filipa Loureiro.