Of Whales is an installation by Wu Tsang I had the pleasure of working on. It premiered at the 2022 Venice Biennale and was later featured at the Gropius Bau in Berlin, the SFMOMA Hass Atrium in San Francisco, the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston.

I directed and animated COSMOS, a 26 minutes long sequence repeated 8 times through this 6 hours long looping installation.

Composers: Asma Maroof and Daniel Pineda

Horns: Tapiwa Svosve, Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson, Miao Zhao

Harp and vocals: Ahya Simone

Creative technologist: Ferdinand Dervieux

3D artist: Aby Batti

Sky Box: Daniel Balage

Lead VFX artist and additional modeling: Alexandra Radulescu

VFX artist: Camille Petit

COSMOS sequence directing and animation: Abel Kohen

Sound design: Nicolas Bredin

Music spatialization: Dave Rife and Gabe Liberti

Additional integration: Small by MacGuff Vincent Gutman, Marine Le Borgne, Florient Salabert

Produced by ATLAS V—Arnaud Colinart

Virtual production by ALBYON

With support from VIVE Arts; VIA Art Fund; Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin; Antenna Space, Shanghai; Cabinet, London; and LUMA Foundation

Here are some short excerpts from the sequence: