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2014

  • Work on this object began.

2023

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2025

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Model, Bangerz, 2014

This is a Model. It is dated 2014. Its medium is 3d-printed resin, recreated for exhibition; staged 2014, miley cyrus world arena tour . It is a part of the department.

“We decided that Miley Cyrus should perform the entire show on her tongue. The first iteration was impractical, so we reduced the length of the tongue to a slide, down which Miley made her entrance—a sculptural portrait of a young woman rewriting her own script.”

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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