Date: 23 January – 2 March 2025
Time: 4-10PM
Where: Westfield London, W12
During adverse weather conditions, the inflatable installations - The Anooki (located on The Southern Terrace) and Evanescent (located on Westfield Square) may be closed for periods of time for safety reasons.
Atelier Sisu is an award winning Sydney-based art practice, lead by Peruvian sculptor and industrial designer Renzo B. Larriviere and spatial architect and artist Zara Pasfield. The pair work with a multi-disciplinary team to create experiential environments, installations and unique sculptural pieces. Their direction of work sits between the fields of art and architecture (art-chitecture), with particular focus in the realm of public art. Each public artwork aims to provide a unique spatial experience for its visitors, while also contributing to the visual identity of a place and promoting community interaction. Evanescent is an adjective, meaning the quality of being fleeting or vanishing quickly; impermanence.
Evanescent is an immersive, light and sound temporary environment that aims to capture the concept of ephemerality and transience in a visual form: the bubble. The artwork was inspired during the Covid-19 pandemic, when the world stopped and everything we took for granted started to disappear. Atelier Sisu endeavoured to communicate this feeling of transient beauty, and the need to live in the moment through the idea of the bubble.
Sydney-based design studio Atelier Sisu works within the intersection of art and architecture creating large-scale site specific works that enchant by reinventing spaces. By day, Evanescent is made from a colour-reflecting dichroic film that reacts to the changing light of the sun as it moves across the sky, causing a rainbow of reflection across the ground and a unique picture from every angle. This art-chitecture connects audiences with their environment and is designed to be truly inclusive. By emulating the ethereal quality and magic of bubbles, Atelier Sisu’s Evanescent appeals to our universal playfulness and childlike wonder, the work encourages the audience to consider the world around them as a space of transience and fragility, like that of a bubble.
Find out more about the artist!
What’s your favourite store at Westfield London and why? L’Occitane en Provence is always our go-to. We adore their Amande Collection and can’t get enough of the shower gel.
Where’s your favourite place to stop for a bite during the chillier months at Westfield London? It’s hard to walk past Ole & Steen and not pop in for a bite. Our favourite are their Cinnamon Swirl and their Sun-dried tomato and Basil Pesto Danish.
What is one thing you wish you had more time to do? People watch (preferably while snacking on something tasty from Ole & Steen). There’s nothing better that taking a quiet moment of repose to people watch on a cold winter day.
What place, even if you don’t live there now, has always felt like your home? While we have never lived there, we always feel very at home in Madrid. We’re not sure if it is the abundance of jamon or the beauty of the city itself, but we also look forward to a trip to Spain’s capitol.
What’s your favourite thing about winter in London? Certainly the fashion! Being from Australia we don’t have many opportunities to rug up like we do when we visit London. Londoners seem to be a particularly stylish breed, and we are always ready to take their lead when it comes to fashion.
Which store or brand is your go-to for a last minute gift at Westfield London?
For a lot minute gift, we would make a direct like towards Aesop. There is always something for everyone, and the atmosphere inside the store is intoxicating.
Best winter purchase this season? By far the best purchase has been La Roche Posay’s Cicaplast Balm. It has saved our skin from those cold winds this Winter