2021
FAROL SANTANDER
São Paulo (Brazil)
“Forest of Numbers” exhibited for the 1st time in The Americas, in São Paulo’s iconic skyscraper FAROL SANTANDER. For this aerial location on the 23rd floor, numbers from 0 to 9, randomly positioned and regularly aligned on a grid, created a three-dimensional matrix in 100 colors.
All the space was filled with numbers in 100 colors, except a tunnel cut through the installation, leading to the windows with bird’s-eye view of the city.
Surrounded closely by infinite numbers, the path invited visitors to wonder inside the multicolored forest of numbers, discovering the subtle changes of 100 colors one by one.
About “Forest of Numbers”
As part of “100 colors” series, Emmanuelle unveiled in 2017 the installation "Forest of Numbers", created for the 10th Anniversary of The National Art Center, Tokyo.
The installation visualized the decade of the future from 2017 to 2026, each layer employing 4 digits to express the relevant year such as 2, 0, 1, and 7 for 2017. More than 60,000 pieces of suspended numeral figures from 0 to 9 were regularly aligned in three dimensional grids. A section was removed, created a path that cut through the installation, invited visitors to wonder inside the colorful forest filled with numbers.
Since 2017, "Forest of Numbers" has been explored in various forms, sizes of numbers, meaning of numbers, depending on the environment and exhibition space.