Neon Installation at Tate Britain

By Elizabeth Donoff

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Forms in Space...by LIght (In Time) by Cerith Wyn Evans is the 2017 Tate Britain Commission and on display in the museum's Duveen Galleries through August 20th.

An installation by filmmaker Cerith Wyn Evans titled Forms in Space … by Light (in Time) is on view at the Tate Britain in London through Aug. 20. The artwork, created for the annual Tate Britain Commission, is made of nearly 2 kilometers (6,561 feet) of neon tubes suspended from the ceiling of the museum’s Duveen Galleries. Arranged in three sections, the sculpture of straight lines, sweeping curves, and spiraling forms finds its starting point in a single neon ring and ends in a maze of neon lines. Evans’ “drawing in space” takes its inspiration from the precise movements used in Japanese Noh theater and his interest in choreology—the practice of translating movement into notational form.

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A view of Cerith Wyn Evans' installation Forms in Space...by LIght (In Time) at Tate Britain.

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Cerith Wyn Evans' neon installation Forms in Space...by LIght (In Time).

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A detail of Cerith Wyn Evans' neon installation Forms in Space...by LIght (In Time) at Tate Britain.