Evanescent by Atelier Sisu

Evanescent is an adjective, meaning the quality of being fleeting or vanishing quickly, impermanence. Evanescent is an immersive, light, and sound temporary environment that aims to capture the concept of ephemerality and transience in a visual form: the bubble.

The artwork was inspired during the Covid-19 pandemic, when the world stopped and everything, we took for granted started to disappear. Atelier Sisu endeavored to communicate this feeling of transient beauty, and the need to live in the moment through the idea of the bubble.

Sydney-based design studio Atelier Sisu works within the intersection of art and architecture, creating large-scale site-specific works that enchant by reinventing spaces.

By day, Evanescent is made from a color-reflecting dichroic film that reacts to the changing light of the sun as it moves across the sky, causing a rainbow of reflection across the ground and a unique picture from every angle.

This art-chitecture connects audiences with their environment and is designed to be truly inclusive. By emulating the ethereal quality and magic of bubbles, Atelier Sisu’s Evanescent appeals to our universal playfulness and childlike wonder. The work encourages the audience to consider the world around them as a space of transience and fragility, like that of a bubble.