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Model, Poem Pavilion

This is a Model. It is dated 2021–22. Its medium is 3d-printed resin and led, recreated for exhibition; installed 2021–22, uk pavilion for the world expo, dubai, united arab emirates . It is a part of the department.

“My studio team and I conceived the UK Pavilion for the World Expo as a giant, conical, wooden wind instrument. This was the first UK pavilion to be designed by a woman since the Expo’s inception in 1851. It harnessed the breaths of UK multicultural choirs within the choral chamber at its heart, and gathered words donated by each of its 25 million visitors through a machine-learning algorithm, beaming a cumulative collective poem from its LED-laced facade.”

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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