Known as much for its gray skies as for its royal family, the U.K. is quite used to an ever-present haze. Now Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya, whose sculptural fog works have overtaken such structures as Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, and Philip Johnson’s Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut, has added a bit of her own. For the Bristol International Festival, a series of performances and installations staged by art-production company In Between Time, Nakaya has shrouded Pero’s Bridge in Bristol, England, with her signature haze. Timed to celebrate Bristol's new title—European Green Capital— Fog Bridge confronts pedestrians with dense, almost opaque vapor that urges them to think about disruptive climate change as well as their own relationship to a basic architectural feature: the bridge.

In a statement Nakaya explains: “The function of a bridge is usually very simple, to cross over to the other side. I like its functional simplicity, but it can hold a cloud and suspend it too. During the ten days of the festival, a bundle of fog will be perching on the bridge and performing with the wind.”

Fog Bridge at Pero’s Bridge, Bristol Harbourside, is open through Sunday, February 22, at regular intervals from 8 a daily; ibt15o.uk

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