Lachlan Turczan Illuminates Milan Design Week with Curtains of Light
Bringing the intangible into physical reality.
American artist Lachlan Turczan is currently presenting six interactive halo sculptures at Milan Design Week 2025, as a part of Google’s Making the Invisible Visible exhibition. Known for his explorations of light and water, Turczan deconstructs the idea of form, resulting in artworks that reimagines the intangible with a material iridescence.
Housed in Garage 21, Lucida (I-VI) lights up the darkness with ethereal hues of white, blue and purple. As visitors pass through the luminous veil, their presence subtly bends its shape, appearing as curtains swaying in the wind, or quiet ripples of sunlit waters.
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Turczan and his team use a combination of lidar, infrared and normal vision cameras to sculpt these ephemeral architectures. By aligning wavelengths and controlling the direction of the beams, they create environments, equal parts immediate and otherworldy
Amidst the chaos of the week’s events, Lucida offers a sanctuary. Akin to his ongoing Veils series, which the installation is based on, it “envisions a future, not defined by physical mass, but by energy and perception,” Turczan described. “Here, light doesn’t serve to illuminate; it forms the very architecture of experience.”
The installation is now on view in Milan through April 13.
Garage 21
Via Archimede, 26,
20129 Milano MI, Italy
