Shams El -Mutwalli Dubai

Japanese art collective, TeamLab is introducing their latest interactive project, one situated within one of Japan’s most historical and valued gardens—the Kairakuen Garden.

The exhibit, titled teamLab: Digitized Kairakuen Garden intends to use lights and digital technology projected onto a natural landscape to emphasize the overarching concept that “non-material digital technology can turn nature into art without harming it,” TeamLab’s website states.

This upcoming project is deemed interactive as it will respond to the presence of people within the space, and visitors can visit from Feb 13 to Mar 21 2021.

The Kairakuen Garden is “considered to be one of the Three Great Gardens of Japan alongside Kenrokuen Garden in Kanazawa and Korakuen Garden in Okayama” TeamLab’s website states.

The garden, created during the Edo Period, houses 3,000 plum trees, that will be utilized as the canvas on which the art collective will explore how “the forms and shapes of nature have been created over many years and have been molded by the interactions between people and nature,” they state.

They conclude by asserting that “by using the shapes, we believe we can explore the boundary in our perception of the long continuity of time.”

Tickets for adults will be priced at JPY 1,500 ($14.40), whereas students can purchase a ticket for the reduced price of JPY 800 ($7.68), and children can enter for free.