The French artist, DJ, and producer blurs the boundaries between flesh, machine, and image in Tate Modern’s debut Infinities Commission.
A Collision of Worlds
Inside the low, echoing chambers of Tate Modern’s Tanks, Christelle Oyiri’s In a perpetual remix where is my song? unfolds as a hypnotic meeting of the digital and the material. The French artist, DJ, and producer explores how technology reshapes our bodies, identities, and desires, drawing uncanny parallels between DJing, cosmetic surgery, and online image-making.
Sculptural Sound and Shifting Light
Bronze casts of female forms stand on speaker plinths, frozen mid-metamorphosis. Moving spotlights sweep from figure to figure, while a warped, atmospheric soundscape spills from above. Behind them, a shifting projection merges filmed footage with found internet imagery and personal archives — a flickering, endless loop of beauty, performance, and transformation.
An Inaugural Statement
On view through August 28, the installation launches Tate Modern’s new Infinities Commission, an annual platform for artists breaking boundaries across disciplines. This year’s selection panel — chaired by Chief Curator Catherine Wood and including Brian Eno, Anne Imhof, Ouilimata Gueye, Andrea Lissoni, and Legacy Russell — chose Oyiri for her ability to turn the act of remixing into a profound meditation on the body in the digital age.
