A midst the cavernous halls of Cisternerne, a reservoir-turned-contemporary art space that lies beneath Copenhagen, the South Korean artist Kimsooja has created what she refers to as a ‘laboratory of lights’. The darkness of the subterranean space is punctured by a kaleidoscope of colour, an effect produced as light diffracts through a translucent film.
Kimsooja’s intention is to bring viewers on ‘a journey of all kinds of experiences of iridescent lights’. In the first of three chambers, Plexiglas panels covered with diffraction film hover above pools of water, like portals to another dimension.
In the second chamber, water
