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Memory of Waves
teamLab
This space features Memory of Waves, an immersive digital installation by the internationally acclaimed art collective teamLab.
Founded in 2001, teamLab is an interdisciplinary group of artists, engineers, architects, programmers, and researchers. Their collaborative practice spans art, science, and technology, offering radically new ways of seeing, feeling, and experiencing art.
The result is a continuously shifting oceanic rhythm—waves endlessly forming and dissolving, visually enacting the flow of time and the cycles of nature.
The visual language of the work connects deeply with the brush-line techniques of waves and clouds found in traditional East Asian art. By fusing this aesthetic heritage with cutting-edge digital technology, teamLab reinterprets the past through a language of the future.
Memory of Waves also resonates closely with the theme of this Biennale, Neighbors of Civilization – somewhere over the yellow sea. It evokes the shared sensibilities of nature and ink painting among East Asian cultural spheres surrounding the Yellow Sea—reconnected here through the lens of contemporary digital experience.
Rather than a static image to be observed, this work invites you to stay, to breathe with it—to experience time not as a concept, but as a bodily rhythm.
Through Memory of Waves, teamLab dissolves the boundaries between memory and sensation, tradition and technology, individual and collective—offering a compelling response to what contemporary ink can become.
Founded in 2001, teamLab is an interdisciplinary group of artists, engineers, architects, programmers, and researchers. Their collaborative practice spans art, science, and technology, offering radically new ways of seeing, feeling, and experiencing art.
The result is a continuously shifting oceanic rhythm—waves endlessly forming and dissolving, visually enacting the flow of time and the cycles of nature.
The visual language of the work connects deeply with the brush-line techniques of waves and clouds found in traditional East Asian art. By fusing this aesthetic heritage with cutting-edge digital technology, teamLab reinterprets the past through a language of the future.
Memory of Waves also resonates closely with the theme of this Biennale, Neighbors of Civilization – somewhere over the yellow sea. It evokes the shared sensibilities of nature and ink painting among East Asian cultural spheres surrounding the Yellow Sea—reconnected here through the lens of contemporary digital experience.
Rather than a static image to be observed, this work invites you to stay, to breathe with it—to experience time not as a concept, but as a bodily rhythm.
Through Memory of Waves, teamLab dissolves the boundaries between memory and sensation, tradition and technology, individual and collective—offering a compelling response to what contemporary ink can become.