Two Installations from Tate Britain and Tate Modern / London part 1

Tate Modern, in the afternoon, right after admiring Saint Paul's Cathedral for half an hour. I enter from Thames' side very tired, looking for a bathroom and a coffee. No expectations for anything. After around 20 confused steps inside I see something amazing across the hall, outside. At first I thought I didn't see clear, then I thought there was a water fountain and because the wind was blowing it created a strange effect, then it hit me: It's fog! But how can there be fog when it's noon, and Spring, sunny and rather warm!

I go straight outside, being drawn towards the mystery, very curious.

There were maybe 5-10 minutes where I was just watching without thinking and enjoying the moment, and my life in that moment. It looked like fog, thick fog. A lot of people and children were running, playing and taking pictures. There were moments when there was clear, nothing, then it would be even thicker and darker than before. It ran through my mind that it can be an installation.

I looked at the kids coming out of the fog, their clothes were completely wet. Nothing made sense, but it was amazing. I stepped inside the fog. It devoured me in two seconds, I lost the contact with the outside world, with anything real, all I saw was white. But the wind was blowing, at times I would see the buildings surrounding me, and at other times I would see nothing, not even my own feet. I was taking some steps, with no notion of space or time, no landmark, it felt like I was walking nowhere, the space felt endless.

I decided to stay in one place. Only at the last second I would see when someone was next to me. I would see them like a black shadow or a shape, only extremely close I would see details. I might have stayed inside the installation for 3 minutes, but it certainly felt longer. I stepped outside.

Yes, it has to be an installation. A great one. But I wasn't sure though, I forgot I was at a modern and contemporary art museum, I thought it was just happening to entertain people, something like a different kind of water fountain but not art. I looked for something, a title, a concept, the name of the artist but I didn't see any. I found later that day that it was in fact an installation. It was basically water being sprayed out through some hoses, plus white light and soundscapes.

                   

It's called London Fog #03779 created by the artist Fujiko Nakaya. It only lasted for a week, and I was lucky enough to see it, and enter it, without even knowing about it.

Pictures from above: Zamfirache Teodora-Stefania

Info:  http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/special-event/fujiko-nakaya-london-fog-03779

Pictures and other people's experiences: https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/fujikonakaya/