On the outlying island of San Lazzaro, Olafur Eliasson exhibited a haunting light piece at the 2005 Venice Biennale called 'Your Black Horizon' in a custom-designed pavilion by David Adjaye, part of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Limited Edition Art Pavilions, which host unique specially commissioned sight-specific art projects on a rotating basis. David Akjaye designed the Pavilions to be flexible and easily adaptable structures with multi-purpose capabilities and over 400 square meters exhibition space.

In a windowless pavilion a thin horizontal line directed through a narrow gap at eye level serves as the primary light source. The light is constantly changing colors and rotates through the color spectrum of an accelerated day every 15 minutes - from reds and blues to white, pink and purple, fading into the blue evening lights - and is calibrated to the specific light condition of Venice. Light recordings were taken from sunrise to sunset to study the spectrum of light and its intensity.