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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Lanre Bakare Arts and culture correspondent

Olafur Eliasson artwork set to turn London’s Piccadilly Circus into a blur

A blurry image of digital screen
Olafur Eliasson, Lifeworld, London, 2024. The piece will swap high-definition adverts for a blurry, reflective video. Photograph: © 2024 Olafur Eliasson

The huge digital billboards that encircle Piccadilly Circus are some of the most sought-after advertising real estate in Europe, beaming thousands of crystal-clear messages in the direction of tourists and Londoners every year.

But in early October the Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson’s latest work will take over the screens and attempt to slow things down, swapping high-definition adverts for a blurry, reflective video piece called Lifeworld.

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