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December 21, 2023
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Es Devlin discusses her recent VF release, An Atlas by H. Devlin.
VF artist and scholar Es Devlin recently sat down to discuss making music and the labels artists give themselves.
Devlin, recently released An Atlas by H. Devlin– a collection that captures 20 soundscapes of her work, with music produced by her longtime collaborators Polyphonia, paired with her vocals – on vinyl via The Vinyl Factory, she spoke to us about her collaboration with Polyphonia, the release of vinyl and the fluidity of creative identity.
Devlin's protean work is rooted in a lifelong practice of reading and drawing. From sketches in the margins of texts, be they poetry, drama, song lyrics, opera librettos, climate reports or endangered species lists, emerge the technically advanced, collectively imagined universes for which she is world famous.
Fragile miniature paintings, papercuts and small mechanical cardboard models form the seeds of some of the most iconic, large-scale, multidisciplinary cultural events of recent times, from public sculptures and installations at Tate Modern, Serpentine, V&A, Barbican, Imperial War Museum and Lincoln Center, in moving sets at the Royal Opera House, Royal Ballet, Metropolitan Opera, La Scala and the National Theatre, as well as Olympic Ceremonies, Super-Bowl halftime shows and monumental illuminated stage sculptures for Beyonce, The Weeknd, U2, Rosalía, Dr Dre and Kendrick Lamar.
An Atlas by H. Devlin by Es Devlin and Polyphonia is available now from The Vinyl Factory on heavy 180g white vinyl with roll-out sleeve, special mixed fluoro orange cover and accompanying 4p booklet.
Order a copy now.
Read more: The records that made S Devlin
