Es Devlin: all artificial light is ultimately natural light

If you love theater, art, or music, your eyes will surely have been delighted by the work of Es Devlin.

She has created public sculptures and installations at the V&A, Serpentine, and Imperial War Museum, and outside at Tate Modern, Trafalgar Square, and the Lincoln Centre, as well as kinetic stage designs at La Scala and the Royal Opera House in London and monumental illuminated stage sculptures for the Super Bowl halftime show, Olympic Ceremonies, and large-scale stadium concerts, including Beyoncé, Kanye West, Take That, Billie Eilish, and many more.

A major retrospective of Devlin’s work was shown at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York in 2023, along with an award-winning book called An Atlas of Es Devlin— which Thames & Hudson have described as their most sculptural and intricate book to date.

For this year’s Salone del Mobile, she paid homage to the spaces of the Accademia di Brera with “Library of Light,” an installation that dialogues with the space, the visitors, and the incredible books of the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense.



The links of this episode:

- Es Devlin's official website https://esdevlin.com
- Maria Gaetana Agnesi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Gaetana_Agnesi
- "Library of Light" for Salone del Mobile.Milano (2025) https://www.salonemilano.it/en/session/es-devlin-library-light
- Beyoncé, "The formation Word Tour" (2016) https://esdevlin.com/work/beyonce
- Gucci Cosmos https://esdevlin.com/work/gucci-cosmos
- U2 at The Spere Las Vegas (2024) https://esdevlin.com/work/the-sphere
- Please Feed the Lions in Trafalgar Square (2018) https://londondesignfestival.com/activities/please-feed-the-lions-by-es-devlin
- "Five Echoes" in Miami (2021) https://www.dezeen.com/2021/12/16/es-devlin-five-echoes-labyrinth-chanel-miami/
- The book "Becoming Animal. An Earthly Cosmology" by David Abram https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/318/becoming-animal-by-david-abram/