Staged 2010, MTV Europe Music Awards, La Caja Mágica Stadium, Madrid, Spain, and 2020, Jubail Mangrove Park, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
“For the MTV Europe Music Awards, I imagined a 10-meter-high revolving box that could reveal a shapeshifting series of performances. Rihanna sang within a sea of red carnations pouring out of an iris. I later revisited the revolving magic box as a piece for the Serpentine Galleries in 2016 and then, in 2020, as a 15-meter illuminated sculpture called The Seed on the waters of the Persian Gulf.”
—Es Devlin