The work of contemporary American artist James Turrell is dedicated to working with light and space. In more than fifty years, he has created a huge number of light installations and architectural objects in different parts of the world.

In the 1960s, he began experimenting with lighting together with members of the California Light and Space movement and introducing shining geometric shapes into the interior. He then moved on to create a series of works called Skyspaces (closed spaces with open access to the sky), as well as dynamic installations, that change with time.

Manipulations with light allow the artist to create unusual visual illusions, which catch the viewer by surprise. Each installation activates sensory perception, that facilitates discovery: what seemed, for example, a cube, in reality, is two light planes of projected light. And a black square on the ceiling - a portal into the night sky.