Tatsuo Miyajima presented a large- scale public light installation during Art Basel Hong Kong 2016 in March. Each night from March 21 to 26 ‘Time Waterfall’ was shown across the entire façade of Hong Kong’s iconic 490 meter high International Commerce Centre (ICC) on the Kowloon harbor front.
Time Waterfall is a work by the artist which aims to convey the eternal luminance of human life, expressing an ethos of ‘living in the present’. The work comprises the natural numbers one to nine, which cascades down the face of the ICC, while never reaching zero.
This work continues the artist’s signature use of light-emitting diode (LED) counters to demonstrate his three fundamental concepts – ‘Keep Changing’; ‘Connect with Everything’; and ‘Continue Forever’.
* It was co-commissioned by Art Basel and the International Commerce Centre in Hong Kong.