The award-winning designer has previously expressed her enamour of the manor designed by British architect John Soane as the one London building she would buy if she could. Es Devlin: Memory Palace. It's laid out as a kind of model village but instead of being geographical it's led by ideas (or moments …

Beyond this, Devlin is paying tribute to an artist who used architecture to create poetry and drama. Memory Palace – Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery. Using cut bamboo, she has created a capacious warped pale-grey landscape that curves … London-based artist and stage designer Es Devlin explores human perspective and our relationship to memory in her sculptural piece ‘ Memory Palace ‘ at Pitzhanger. London-based artist and stage designer Es Devlin explores human perspective and our relationship to memory in her sculptural piece ‘Memory Palace‘ at Pitzhanger. Interdisciplinary artist Es Devlin OBE is known for her ambitious sculptures and environments across art, theatre and music. This is what she does herself in her rightly famous performance designs, from Adele to Don Giovanni. In this new large-scale work, commissioned by Pitzhanger, visitors are immersed within a vast chronological landscape mapping pivotal shifts in human perspective over 75 millennia. The work is essentially a map of memories - marking moments of major change spanning the past 78,000 years. First off, Memory Palace is another term for the method of loci (loci is Latin for ‘places’) it is a method to enhance memory using visualisations, spatial memory and familiar information about your environment to recall information. As …

Es Devlin, Memory Palace, Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery. Fragments of cities come together to chart the evolution of human thought in Es Devlin’s installation, Memory Palace at London’s Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery – named after the mnemonic technique of cataloguing memories within familiar locations.. Es Devlin Project Memory Palace Photographer Peter Mallet Words Emily Grundon. NOW EXTENDED UNTIL 9 FEBRUARY.

Work Picture: Installation Image: Es Devlin, Memory Palace, Pitzhanger Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery. Es Devlin. Devlin’s Memory Palace is a railway modeller’s paradise. Es Devlin’s Memory Palace at, Pitzhanger Pitzhanger Manor and Gallery. Photograph By Peter Mallet. Working sketch of Memory Palace, 2019. Es Devlin OBE has had a fascinating and phenomenal career so far and now she’s back with her newest exhibition ‘Memory Palace’.The exhibition is being displayed at the Pitzhanger Manor and Gallery from now until 12th January 2020 Pitzhanger Manor and Gallery from now until 12th January 2020
La designer e scenografa Es Devlin ha recentemente concluso la sua mostra personale alla Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery di Londra, un ’esplorazione dell’evoluzione del pensiero e della storia umana, attraverso una tentacolare installazione intitolata “Memory Palace”.

Next year, Devlin will once again be the face of British design as the artistic director of London Design Biennale 2020. Photograph By Peter Mallet. Visitors are invited to explore an expansive chronological landscape charting pivotal moments throughout history, which have resulted in shifts in human perspective. Devlin's Memory Palace is the second exhibition to be held in the Pitzhanger, the country home of architect John Soane, since its reopening in Spring 2019. Courtesy of Es Devlin ‘It started with a sketch: I had a sense of the broad sweep I wanted to cover, starting with the first intentional marks left by humans in caves, and ending with current ongoing shifts in our attitudes to the interlinking fields of ecology and economics,’ says Devlin.