Hyundai Commission: El Anatsui: Behind the Red Moon

2023’s edition of the Hyundai Commission at the acclaimed Turbine Hall of Tate Modern is populated by the unique and dazzling metal hanging sculptures of El Anatsui. Dubbed ‘Behind the Red Moon’, the exhibition leads you on a journey through thousands of repurposed liquor bottle caps reshaped into the floating and cascading forms of an artwork that is staged in three acts that each reflect an aspect of the vast expanse of human history and the elemental power of nature. Anatsui’s site-specific structures tell wonders of his interest in the movement and migration of goods and people during the transatlantic slave trade.

Also available as part of the experience is a soundscape created by sound artist, Peter Adjaye, as a response to ‘Behind the Red Moon’.