The inaugural artist for the Infinities Commission is artist, DJ and producer Christelle Oyiri. In a perpetual remix where is my song? is a work made specially by Oyiri for the Tanks, Tate Modern’s unique spaces dedicated to performance, installation and film.
This is an audio-visual installation made up of sculpture, sound, music, video and light. With this new work the artist draws similarities between techniques used by DJs, such as cutting and repetition, and those used in cosmetic surgery and online image-making technologies.
In this looping performance of object, light and audio, both flesh and sound are treated as sculptural. Oyiri asks: ‘In a hyperconnected society, where the image is perpetually staged and corrected, how do the virtual and the material come together in the quest for the ideal body?'
The Infinities Commission 2025 selection panel included Brian Eno, Oulimata Gueye, Anne Imhof, Andrea Lissoni and Legacy Russell. Chaired by Catherine Wood (Director of Curatorial and Chief Curator).
Find out more about the Infinities Commission exhibition with our exhibition guide.
Christelle Oyiri is an artist, DJ and producer based in Paris. She works across multiple disciplines – from music and film to performance and installation – often exploring under-the-surface stories about contemporary culture, media and identity. Oyiri has described her work as focusing on ‘the things that lie between the lines’, including lost mythologies, youth subcultures, and diasporic histories. She has staged installations, performances and events around the world, including at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Haus der Kunst in Munich, Tramway in Glasgow and the Serpentine Gallery in London, as well as working as a DJ under the pseudonym CRYSTALMESS.
The Infinities Commission showcases the limitless potential for contemporary art. It provides a platform for artists who disrupt the boundaries between creative disciplines, inviting them to create an experimental new work for the Tanks, Tate Modern’s unique spaces dedicated to performance, installation and film. Each year an expert panel selects one international artist to receive the commission and three artists to receive research and development funding:
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Xenobia Bailey
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