Japanese art collective TeamLab has created a site-specific digital installation of water moving towards a vortex, on the inside of a domed roof in the new Amos Rex museum in Helsinki.
The artists created the installation as part of TeamLab: Massless, the inaugural show at the Amos Rex, which opens on 30 August 2018.
Named Vortex of Light Particles, the installation occupies the largest exhibition space of the JKMM Architects-designed museum. The domed roof of the gallery, which bulges into the public square above, forms the canvas for the audio-visual artwork.

Over 50 projectors are used to show an interpretation of water flowing towards the space where a skylight is positioned, in the roof of the gallery. The skylight has been covered with black material to stop light entering the installation. TeamLab created the representation by calculating the interaction between water particles and then drawing lines in relation to their behaviour.
"Our work Vortex of Light Particles, which we are creating especially for this occasion, will be the largest installation in the exhibition," said Toshiyuki Inoko, founder of TeamLab.

"We have created a digital simulation of water pouring upward in reversed gravity towards the uniquely and beautifully domed ceiling, flowing from this underground space to the skylight above, he continued.
"The trajectories of these simulated water particles form a series of lines, which will in turn create waterfalls and vortex all ...