Christelle Oyiri Turns Up the Volume with 'Perpetual Remix'

• Summary
• French artist Christelle Oyiri presents In a perpetual remix where is my song?, the debut work of Tate’s Inaugural Commission.
• On view through August 28, the multimedia installation explores how digital and material worlds collide in the quest for the ideal form

Under the low-slung ceilings of Tate‘s Tanks, a sculptural symphony of flesh and machine unfolds. The London institution tapped French artist, DJ and producer Christelle Oyiri for its inaugural Infinities Commission, and her resulting work delivered nothing short of stunning.

In a perpetual remix where is my song? examines the impact of digital art on the ways we construct identity, reconsidering bodily form in an age of cut-and-splice technologies and the uncanny parallels between DJing, cosmetic surgery and online image-making.

Oyiri’s bronze casts of female forms sit atop speaker plinths. Caught between stages of metamorphosis, spotlights move from one figure to the next, as an accompanying soundscape warps from above. Projected behind them is a marriage of filmed footage and found imagery that flickers between internet ephemera and personal archive, bringing forth a hypnotic loop of beauty and performance.

“In a hyperconnected society, where the image is perpetually staged and corrected, how do the virtual and the material come together in the quest for the ideal body? How do aesthetic practices influence our perception of reality and desire?” the artist asks.

Now on view through August 28, In a perpetual remix where is my song? marks the debut work for the Infinities Commission, an annual commission that aims to platform artists disrupting the boundaries between creative arenas. This year’s panel is chaired by Chief Curator Catherine Wood, alongside the likes of Brian Eno, Ouilimata Gueye, Anne Imhof, Andrea Lissoni and Legacy Russell.

Tate Modern
Bankside,
London SE1 9TG,
United Kingdom