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Wednesday 16 February 2022

Artlyst: Marcus Lyon Creates Fields of Vision At St Martin-in-the-Fields London


My latest preview piece for Artlyst is on Fields of Vision, an immersive exterior projection created by Marcus Lyon in collaboration with St Martin-in-the-Fields. 

The work, covering the whole church façade, explores concepts of freedom, service and community in our modern world through oral histories, large scale portraits and ancestral DNA mapping, with music by Brian Eno. The piece weaves together the narratives of 28 extraordinary individuals from across the globe, chosen by their own communities, to tell a deeper story of our interdependence and the extraordinary power of collaboration:

'His Human Atlas projects hold a mirror up to society and encourage audiences to question their own roles and responsibilities to their communities, cities and fellow human beings. A Human Atlas is a social impact art project that brings together a specified number of nominated change agents to tell a deeper story about how we self-author and co-author a more hopeful future through portraits, interviews, soundscapes and DNA mapping.

Lyon’s third Human Atlas project was the award-winning i.Detroit, which was named Book of the Year, Best Self-Published Book and Best British Book by the British Book and Production Awards 2021. Earlier Human Atlas projects were in Brazil and Germany. All three Human Atlas projects will feature in Fields of Vision. Lyon and his team have recently begun production on their fourth Atlas, De.Coded: a Human Atlas of Silicon Valley, this book will highlight 101 change agents of the valley.

When I interviewed Lyon for Artlyst in 2020 he said his intention with the Human Atlas projects is: “to give people a chance to experience something more powerfully and with more depth. I think that’s the gift we’re trying to give. I’m very intentionally and practically building processes to help people slow down in a fast world. I think within the Human Atlas process our endeavour is to facilitate a deeper meditation on what it means to be you, what it means to be me and what it means to be we.”'

My Artlyst interview with Marcus Lyon can be viewed here and my survey of art at St Martin-in-the-Fields here.

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Brian Eno - I'll Come Running.
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