In a Perpetual Remix Where Is My Own Song?

Parisian artist and DJ wins inaugural Tate Infinities Commission with multimedia installation

Christelle Oyiri has transformed The Tanks at Tate Modern into a space for confronting contemporary anxieties about self-image through her multimedia installation "In a Perpetual Remix Where Is My Own Song?"

The 33-year-old Parisian artist and DJ, winner of Tate's inaugural Infinities Commission, created bronze sculptures of herself with deliberately distorted features: toned legs, tiny horns, dissolving heads and monstrous tails. Each sculpture sits mounted on sound systems in the gallery's basement, representing different versions of herself.

"How could you not be body dysmorphic today?" Oyiri asks, addressing the twisted relationship between self-perception and digital representation that defines modern identity formation.

Of Ivorian and Guadeloupean heritage, Oyiri represents what she calls "the margins" of the art world. Her creative heroes weren't traditional artists but musicians—black divas like Chaka Khan, Whitney Houston, Lil Kim and Nicki Minaj. "They're the women I wanted to emulate. They're my icons."

The Infinities Commission was designed to "showcase the limitless experimentation of contemporary art," making Oyiri's exploration of digital-age identity particularly relevant. Her background as both visual artist and DJ informs the installation's multimedia approach, where sound and sculpture merge to create immersive commentary on contemporary self-representation.

By casting herself in bronze with deliberately monstrous alterations, Oyiri materialises the psychological distortions that social media and digital filters create in real bodies.

"In a Perpetual Remix Where Is My Own Song?" opens at Tate Modern, London, on 17 June..

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