Visual artist Christina Augustesen used acrylic lamellas to create a series of colourful sculptures, with hues that change depending on how the light hits them, for 3 Days of Design festival in Copenhagen.
The installation was a collaboration with Danish window manufacturer Velux, shown at Pas Normal Studio's exhibition space in Copenhagen's trendy Nordhavn neighbourhood.
Here, Augustesen presented multiple rectangular sculptures inside a room with skylights that make their colours pop for the exhibition, called The Power of Daylight.
Her artworks, which the artist calls "daylight sculptures", feature a clear base and a colourful top made out of 30 acrylic lamellas in different shades.
"With these lamellas I can create openings and closures with light and I can create gradation in colours, because the lamellas are placed at different angles so depending on where you're standing, a new colour will appear," Augustesen explained at the opening of the event.
The artist, whose work focuses on light and colour design, said that her intention was to create sculptures that would evoke the colours seen at sunset or sunrise.
"The gradation in colour is very much like – if you think about sunset or sunrise – if you have a perfect sunset, you see this perfect gradation of all these tones of colours," she said.
Her overall aim as an artist is to draw attention to light and its effect on our wellbeing, something Augustesen thinks that we often take for granted.
"I'm very curious about trying to capture or collect the daylight, so that it could be turned into a material and shaped into a form; it is important to me to create these sculptures, because they remind us about how to sense small shifts in daylight," she said.
"We are surrounded by daylight and take it for granted," Augustesen concluded.
There were plenty of interesting exhibitions at this year's edition of the annual 3 Days of Design festival.
Among them were multiple installations that focused on Japanese design and the Ukurant exhibition that showcased craft-focused furniture, including a vertebrate-like sunlounger.
3 Days of Design took place from 10 to 12 June 2026 at various locations across Copenhagen, Denmark. See Dezeen Events Guide for more architecture and design events around the world.