Art & Cetera

Artandcetera @ Tate Modern

Floating Memory, Leah Wong

Interview with Leah Wong

See, Ami Yoshida

Ami Yoshida is currently an art student based in Yamagata, Japan. Many of her works include life-size human motifs made of plaster and wood that stand out eerily in richly colored landscapes and environments. See is a open-air sculpture meant to invite the viewer to reflect on their existential frame of mind.

COCOON, Factory Fifteen

Located in London, Factory Fifteen is a film and animation studio led by directors Jonathan Gales, Paul Nicholls, and Kibwe Tavares. With varied backgrounds in architecture, 3-D visualization, engineering, animation, and photography, the trio puts a distinctive twist on filmmaking. Cocoon is a 360 degree by 220 degree immersive installation in which spectators watch as their surroundings shimmer, shift, and fall away before their eyes, giving way to entirely different surroundings.

Insights from Cerith Wyn Evans

Welsh artist Cerith Wyn Evans is known for many of his text-inspired works that intensify the readers’ visual and auditory experiences with materials like glowing neon tubes and burning wood. Though his selections are often short, their brevity and romanticism invites viewers to speculate the deeper meaning left behind in the context of a vast, empty, and isolating space.

Fleuve Céleste, Julien Salaud

Located 82-feet underground Maison Ackerman in France, Fleuve Céleste is an installation made up of 28 miles of cotton thread and 65,000 nails, all illuminated by UV light. The result is an eerie atmosphere meant to invite the viewers to reflect upon the intersections of nature and culture as well as mysticism and beauty.