This paper will discuss the issues of sensory apparatus creating human reality On the examples of artists  like James Turrell and Olafur Eliasson  whose artistic practice is deeply anchored in the 20th century understanding of body and its sensual awareness  and who are using ephemeral materials such as space  light and its most subjective derivative  colour  the author is going to deliberate on the phenomenon of design of polysensual artistic experiments inextricably merged into the tissue of reality