Studies, Legend of the Fall

Staged 2017, The Weeknd World Arena Tour

“For Legend of the Fall, Abel ‘The Weeknd’ Tesfaye proposed an intergalactic craft to transport the audience to other worlds. I folded a paper airplane to demonstrate how the suspended sculpture could function, with the pattern of the show as a flight path.”

—Es Devlin

A large, indoor concert venue full of people with a series of large red triangles that together form a spaceship-like structure, suspended above the crowd at an angle.

Production photograph, Legend of the Fall
Staged 2017, The Weeknd World Arena Tour
Courtesy of Es Devlin

Series of twelve images showing, at different angles, the progression of a large triangular object transforming as it floats above a crowd; the images are black and white except the last one which shows the object in red.

Production photograph, Legend of the Fall
Staged 2017, The Weeknd World Arena Tour
Courtesy of Es Devlin

A clear case mounted to a white wall contains a series of papers with drawings and notes as well as a paper airplane and the mask of a human face.

Es Devlin, Studies, Legend of the Fall, After Hours Til Dawn, and Abel’s Mask
Photo: Elliot Goldstein © Smithsonian Institution

Several pieces of paper pinned to a wall depicting plans for a paper plane; a similar 3D triangular form is also pinned to the wall.

Es Devlin, Studies, Legend of the Fall, Graphite on paper, foam and wire.
Staged 2017, The Weeknd World Arena Tour
Photo: Elliot Goldstein © Smithsonian Institution

Photo of two hands holding a white, three-dimensional triangle; notes and small forms are drawn in white on the photo.

Es Devlin, Study model, Legend of the Fall, Folded paper.
Staged 2017, The Weeknd World Arena Tour
Courtesy of Es Devlin

Studies, Legend of the Fall

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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

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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

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Model, Abel’s Mask

Model, Bangerz

Model, Carmen

Model, Chimerica

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Model, Innocence + Experience

Model, Les Troyens

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Model, London Olympics

Study, Dynamic Cube

Study, Perforated Screen

Model, Come Home Again

Model, Five Echoes

Model, Forest of Us

Model, Infinite Library

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Model, Mirror Maze

Model, Please Feed the Lions

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