Go See: The Hermès “H Box” at the Tate Modern, London, through August 17

July 16th, 2008

H BOX, designed by Didier Fiuza Faustino Portuguese, and produced by Hermès International via Bloomberg

Storied french luxury fashion house Hermès International presents the H BOX, a collapsible screening hall designed by Portuguese artist and architect, Didier Fiuza Faustino. The H Box is a traveling screening capsule that exhibits the video art of 8 international artists: Alice Anderson, Yael Bartana, Sebastián Díaz-Morales, Dora García, Judit Kúrtag, Valérie Mréjen, Shahryar Nashat, and Su-Mei Tse. The H Box will be exhibited in the Tate Modern in London until August 17.

Outside The Box [Vogue]
Hermes H Box, Tate Modern [Designtaxi]
The Tate Modern [Tate]
Vuitton’s Richard Prince Bags, Hermes at Tate: Fashion Art [Bloomberg]
Tate’s H-Box screens art films [Digital Arts Online]

H BOX, designed by Didier Fiuza Faustino Portuguese, and produced by Hermès International via Artjetset

The idea is that the traveling screening room will be updated every year by rotating four of the exhibited films out and replacing them with four new films. Benjamin Weil, executive director of Artists Space, New York, is the artistic director of the project.

This mobile art project is reminiscent of a Chanel art project that was designed by architect Zaha Hadid earlier this summer. The mobile art exhibit first exhibited in Tokyo, Japan. Read more here.

H BOX, designed by Didier Fiuza Faustino Portuguese, and produced by Hermès International via Black-is-Back

The aluminum and Perspex structure can be dissembled and assembled with considerable ease. It was designed to be able to travel the world and be re-exhibited in many different international locations. The H Box was originally exhibited in Paris at the Pompidou Center in November 2007, and is set to move to Yokohama Triennale in Yokohama, Japan next.