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2023

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2024

2025

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Installation, Theater in a Box

This is a Installation. It is dated 2023. Its medium is duration: 14 minutes. It is a part of the department.

You’ve now entered a backstage world. Many of Devlin’s projects travel in crates just like these as they tour from one venue to another. The largest box contains a model theater in which a film cycles through a selection of performances and installations from 1998 to 2023. Soaring harmonies accompany the visuals. Devlin developed many of these works from the models and studies displayed in earlier galleries. As a designer of temporary spaces, she views theater as an architecture of the imagination.

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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