Studies, Hello

Staged 2016–17, Adele World Arena and Stadium Tour

“For her first tour in five years, Adele and I imagined an audience arriving at an arena filled with the sound of her sleeping. Her giant closed eyes would fill one end of the arena, opening on the first note of the song ‘Hello.’ Our ideas evolved through scrawled symbols on setlists when the rehearsals were too loud for talking.”

—Es Devlin

A printed list of song titles in a uniform font with handwritten notes around them.

Es Devlin, Study, Hello, Graphite and print on paper.
Staged 2016–17, Adele World Arena and Stadium Tour
Courtesy of Es Devlin

Singer Adele on stage in a dark room with a large, black-and-white projection of her eyes behind her.

Production photograph, Hello
Staged 2016–17, Adele World Arena and Stadium Tour
Courtesy of Es Devlin

Singer Adele on stage in a dark room surrounded by four large-scale, black-and-white projections of her.

Production photograph, Hello
Staged 2016–17, Adele World Arena and Stadium Tour
Courtesy of Es Devlin

Collection of drawings pinned to a wall depicting rectangular prisms with eyes.

Es Devlin, Studies, Hello, Graphite on paper.
Staged 2016–17, Adele World Arena and Stadium Tour
Photo: Elliot Goldstein © Smithsonian Institution

Drawing of a large rectangular prism with an image of two eyes positioned above a crowd of people and a single person on a stage.

Es Devlin, Study, Hello, Graphite on paper.
Staged 2016–17, Adele World Arena and Stadium Tour
Courtesy of Es Devlin

Drawing of a white, vertical rectangular prism in a round space with faces on a black background; one person is inside the prism surrounded by a crowd.

Es Devlin, Study, Hello, Graphite on paper.
Staged 2016–17, Adele World Arena and Stadium Tour
Courtesy of Es Devlin

Studies, Hello

An Atlas of Es Devlin

Your journey so far

All pages

An Infinite Archive

Studio

Iris

Archive Unboxed

Sculptures, Ideas to Forms

Studies, Abel’s Mask

Studies, After Hours Til Dawn

Studies, Bangerz

Studies, Come Home Again

Studies, Electric

Studies, Experience + Innocence

Studies, Flag: Burning

Studies, Forest of Us

Studies, Fundamental

Studies, Hello

Studies, Innocence + Experience

Studies, Legend of the Fall

Studies, Memory Palace

Studies, Mirror Maze

Studies, PoemPortraits

Studies, Sphere

Studies, Unknown Soldier

Studies, Witness

Study, Die Tote Stadt

Study, Don Giovanni

Study, Free Your Mind

Model, Atlas

Model, Betrayal

Model, Don Giovanni

Model, Fundamental

Model, Howie the Rookie

Model, La Caja Mágica / The Seed

Model, Legend of the Fall

Model, Macbeth

Model, Parsifal

Model, The Hunt

Model, The Lehman Trilogy

Sculpture, Songs for Sorrow

Model, Abel’s Mask

Model, Bangerz

Model, Carmen

Model, Chimerica

Model, Compton Super Bowl

Model, Flag: Burning

Model, Hello

Model, Innocence + Experience

Model, Les Troyens

Model, Progress

Model, London Olympics

Study, Dynamic Cube

Study, Perforated Screen

Model, Come Home Again

Model, Five Echoes

Model, Forest of Us

Model, Infinite Library

Model, Memory Palace

Model, Mirror Maze

Model, Please Feed the Lions

Model, Poem Pavilion

Model, Redraw the Edges of Your Self

Model, Room 2022

Model, Your Voices

Model, Zoetrope

Theater in a Box

Films

Book Unbound