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Model, Atlas

This is a Model. It is dated 2019. Its medium is 3d-printed resin and led, recreated for exhibition; staged 2019, los angeles philharmonic, walt disney concert hall, los angeles, california, usa . It is a part of the department.



“Meredith Monk’s transcendent wordless opera Atlas charts the spiritual growth of the 19th-century explorer Alexandra David-Néel. The young girl encounters travel companions and spirit guides within a 12-meter-diameter sphere, scored with webs of international trade and travel routes. The form encompassed Monk’s radiant vision of a possible alternative to the current world order.”

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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