Ragnar Kjartansson's "The Visitors" is a multiscreen video installation that shows a live performance of musicians performing an ongoing pattern in several rooms of a historical mansion. The piece highlights the difficulties of human connection by creating the feeling of both connection and isolation at the same time. It stimulates emotions of hope, nostalgia, and longing through the use of repetition, time frame, and shared experiences. Through shifting between sincerity and irony and embracing both postmodern fragmentation and self-awareness and modernist fundamentals of individual expression, this work represents metamodernism. It conveys an urge for unity and authenticity in the face of an uncertain and broken world, which is characteristic of metamodernist sensibilities.
The artwork "The Weather Project" by Olafur Eliasson creates an immersive atmosphere resembling of a foggy dusk or sunrise with its shining artificial sun and mirrored ceiling. Visitors explore how they perceive the environment, light, and space. By hiding the difference between illusion and reality, the installation challenges people's perceptions of natural events. This piece demonstrates metamodernism by combining postmodern scepticism and reflective thinking with modernist hopes for extraordinary experiences. Reflecting metamodernist themes of balance between sincerity and irony, originality and deceit, as it encourages viewers to consider their place in the world and the mutual dependence of nature and technology.
Anish Kapoor's sculpture "Leviathan" encourages viewers to interact with their environment in a way that alters them with its towering scale and reflective surface. The mirrored surface of the sculpture distorts the lines between the individual and their surroundings by warping and shattering the reflection of the observer. This entirety experience invites reflection on how one feels about the artwork and the world as a whole. By merging postmodern consciousness and vagueness with modernist ideals for good experiences, Kapoor's art represents metamodernism. It inspires curiosity and uncertainty in viewers and encourages them to investigate the complexity of life and the flexibility of perception.