Alexei Kallima's Rain Theorem was shown in the Russian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2009. Visitors entered through a corridor into a room whose walls were covered in drawings of an energetic cheering crowd. While the 'black light' is on, the drawing is visible, and shortly after it becomes visible a cheer begins with a whistle and builds to a crescendo until it is abruptly cut off when white light comes on. After a brief pause of normal light, the cycle begins again. It is as if the drawing is cheering the arrival of each visitor, and as if the floor of the room is a platform looking onto a football stadium audience.
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