Olafur Eliasson explains how his recently opened exhibition at London's Tate Modern prompts visitors to look at the world from a new perspective, in this exclusive video interview filmed by Dezeen.
Called In Real Life, the exhibition comprises around 40 works from the last 26 years of the Danish-Icelandic artist's career.
Olafur Eliasson's exhibition at the Tate Modern brings together three decades of his work
Eliasson hopes the show will challenge visitors' perception of reality ? a common theme in his work.
"When one leaves an exhibition like mine, I hope that it's not as if you had stepped into some kind of dream machine and then you walk back out into reality," Eliasson says in the video. "I really hope that you step closer to reality and see things in higher granularity." "I think that culture and art can ask questions, can entice and inspire you to evaluate things in a greater perspective," he added.
Eliasson hopes visitors will leave the exhibition seeing the world from a new perspective
The works on show also reflect the artist's interest in colour theory, geometry, the environment and natural phenomena such as waterfalls.
One of the pieces created for the exhibition is an 11-metre-high waterfall constructed from scaffolding, installed on the terrace.

Eliasson said the piece questions whether nature is real or man-made in the context of the anthropocene era ? the new geological era in which human activity is the dominant influence on e...