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Cerith Wyn Evans — Voodoo Child
Cerith Wyn Evans

Voodoo Child

"Voodoo Child" is a neon installation by Cerith Wyn Evans that employs white neon tubing to create text or abstract forms, characteristic of the artist's engagement with language, light, and phenomenological experience. Evans uses the medium's inherent qualities of luminosity and industrial materiality to explore how meaning is constructed through visual perception and spatial encounters. The work exemplifies his broader practice of investigating the relationship between linguistic signification, materiality, and the viewer's embodied experience within an installation environment.

Medium
artist installation comprising white neon

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April 10, 2025

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Cerith Wyn Evans, Voodoo Child

"Voodoo Child" is a neon installation by Cerith Wyn Evans that employs white neon tubing to create text or abstract forms, characteristic of the artist's engagement with language, light, and phenomenological experience. Evans uses the medium's inherent qualities of luminosity and industrial materiality to explore how meaning is constructed through visual perception and spatial encounters. The work exemplifies his broader practice of investigating the relationship between linguistic signification, materiality, and the viewer's embodied experience within an installation environment.

Medium
artist installation comprising white neon
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Spiritual subject matter, Mixed Media Installation, Conceptual Art, Immersive Experience, Cultural Symbolism, Mystical aesthetic, Late 20th Century, Video Art, Welsh Artist, Contemporary

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