Brooks Outside: Evanescent

Evanescent is an immersive, outdoor light and sound experience inspired by the beauty, fragility, and transience of the natural world. Resembling oversized clusters of bubbles, the installation invites visitors to walk around, through, and under the iridescent spheres that will be installed on the museum’s plaza on September 30 through October 21st. The work is covered in dichroic film—a material that refracts the sunlight into beams of different wavelengths, creating a rainbow of different colors that emulates the unique and captivating surface of a bubble. At night, the bubbles are illuminated from within, creating a dynamic show of colored light choreographed to an ethereal soundscape.

Evanescent is created by Atelier Sisu, a design firm based in Sydney, Australia, led by two award-winning artists Renzo B. Larriviere (b. 1985, Lima, Peru) and Zara Pasfield (b. 1995, Sydney, Australia). It is part of the studio’s Ephemeral Bubbletecture series created in 2021.

This project is being supported, in whole or in part, by federal award number SLFRP5534 awarded to the State of Tennessee by the U.S. Department of Treasury.‍