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2015

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2023

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2025

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Studies, Innocence + Experience

This is a Studies. It is dated 2015. Its medium is mixed media on paper; staged 2015, u2 world arena tour . It is a part of the department.


“For Innocence + Experience, U2 needed a sculpture that represented the highway between the band’s origins as teenagers and their contemporary practice as global activists. During meetings, I made ink paintings that led to the idea of a transparent LED block animated with different imagery. U2 closed the first act of each concert with the song ‘Until the End of the World.’ During the song, furniture from their childhood homes appeared to be overwhelmed by Hokusai’s woodblock print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa.”

It is credited Courtesy of Es Devlin.

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition An Atlas of Es Devlin.

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