Philippe Parreno is the latest artist to create an installation for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. Part interactive aquarium, part institutional takeover, “Anywhen” will be on display until April 2, 2017.The space, which has previously held large-scale installations by Louise Bourgeois, Rachel Whiteread, and Ai Weiwei, among others, has been transformed by French artist Parreno into what the Tate calls “an experience that plays with time and space, guiding the public through constantly changing stages of light, sound, and moving elements.”Central to this is a film, projected onto a screen in a makeshift booth created by a sequence of panels descending from the ceiling, which features a number of sea-creatures blown up into epic proportions, as well as a stage ventriloquist. The aquatic theme is furthered by a series of inflated fish that hang around the extensive space.The lights of the Turbine are programmed to create varying environments through the gallery. Combined with a soundscape that is “broadcast from various sources, blurring the sense of inside and outside, public and private, natural and technological,” the experience is a disorientating one. It plays on the new position of the Turbine Hall within the center of the extended Tate by placing visitors in a space slightly reminiscent of an aquarium, where they have no control of the environment around them, which keeps changing according to a set of rules they are unaware of.“Hyundai Commission 2016 — Philippe Parreno: Anywhen” runs through April 2, 2017 at Tate Modern.
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