A dialogue with flowers and nature
The moment you step into the venue, more than 2,000 fresh flowers will begin moving in tandem with your movements. Flowers floating in mid-air start to rustle, as if welcoming and embracing, and you are cloaked in the delicate fragrance of flowers, entering a fairyland.
The “Espace teamLab x M&O:Floating Flower Garden – Flowers and I are of the same root, the Garden and I are one” (Hall 7) display, presented by teamLab, creates a space where flowers and visitors become one, and provides an experience of the transition of time amidst nature.
This installation was inspired by the Japanese philosophy of Zen. According to teamLab, “When humans and flowers become one, people look at flowers and flowers look at people. Maybe that moment is the first time that people truly see flowers for what they are.” The artists hope to create the experience of having a dialogue with flowers and nature for visitors through the “Floating Flower Garden”.
A creative group approaching art from all areas
teamLab is an “ultra-technologist” group that brings together specialists from all areas. While blurring the lines between art, science, technology, and creativity, it gives life to various situations through new approaches, surprising people from Japan, as well as America, Europe, and Asia.
In the Maison & Objet held in January, it presented a program entitled “World unleashed and then connecting-”. Motifs drawn on tableware moved over the table and surrounding spaces, creating a huge impact on the viewers. teamLab’s ideas and expressions far exceed the bounds of our imagination.
Their forms of expression, which go beyond design, technology, and ideology into the next era and beyond, will communicate the sensibilities of the Japanese people around the world.
Maison et Objet Hall 7 Entrance
About teamLab Artist collaborative formed in 2001. teamLab is a collaborative, interdisciplinary creative group that brings together professionals from various fields of practice in the digital society: artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians, architects, web and print graphic designers and editors. Referring to themselves as “Ultra-technologists,” their aim is to achieve a balance between art, science, technology and creativity.