Shaped by Water was an exhibition created by Studio Lachlan Turczan and Google Design team for the Milan Design Week in 2023. The result of a decade of research, Turczan created 2 artworks titled Sympathetic Resonance & Wavespace. These artworks formed a 9,150 square foot custom-built experience, that demonstrated how the powerful compounds in the natural world — water — can serve as a teacher and medium for our forms of art and technology.

Turczan’s art practice, focusing on the optical and sonic properties of water, offered an immersive, sensorial experience exploring our connection to water as humans and as a source of inspiration.

The exhibition was visited by over 4 thousand people during the weeklong display.