Artist Lachlan Turczan showcases at Milan Design Week 2025 in collaboration with Google's exhibition titled 'Making the Invisible Visible'

Artist Lachlan Turczan, in collaboration with Google's Chief Design Officer of Consumer Devices, Ivy Ross, is set to unveil an awe-inspiring installation at the Garage 21 event space during Milan Design Week 2025. Titled "Making the Invisible Visible", the exhibition will take place from April 7 through 13, 2025, at Via Archimede, 26, 20129 Milano.

Turczan's installation aims to put a shape to the intangible relationship between creativity, form, the ephemeral, and the real world. To achieve this, he has created a series of custom optics to project light in a focused way, making light feel like a solid object. He uses custom-built technology and off-the-shelf theatrical components, including concert-grade projectors, to build his installations.

Ross was inspired by Turczan's work in the study of sound, vibration, and shape (cymatics) and selected his work for the 2023 installation, "The Shape of Water". She believes that the future will hold a mix of physical and intangible hardware, citing the new thermostat as an example that blends into the background and only becomes apparent when needed.

The exhibition will also feature Google's entire hardware portfolio, including the Pixel watch, designed by Ross's team. The watch boasts a case and face shaped like a water droplet, reflecting the theme of fluidity and shape.

The installation at Garage 21 will feature dynamically re-shaped columns of light. Turczan uses a theatre-grade vaporizer to create a haze of water droplets, highlighting the beams and shaping the space. This immersive experience is a follow-up to Google's 2024 installation, "Making Sense of Colour".

The exhibition in Milan includes a section on Google's hardware evolution, tracing the development of the new thermostat and its form factor. Ross concludes that her team is like an orchestra conductor, craftsmen who hope the sensorial nature of life doesn't go away and that consumers will always crave the tactile and the textural.

For more information about the installation, visit LachlanTurczan.com, and follow Lachlan Turczan on Twitter at @LachlanTurczan. The installation, "Making the Invisible Visible", promises to be a mesmerising exploration of light, form, and the intersection of art and technology.

Artist Lachlan Turczan showcases at Milan Design Week 2025 in collaboration with Google's exhibition titled 'Making the Invisible Visible'