Es Devlin’s ‘Come Home Again’ lands in Seoul with new works shaped by light and place

The Es Devlin exhibition The Third Poem: Es Devlin, Come Home Again opens at FUTURA SEOUL in Seoul on August 20th, 2026, bringing major works from the British artist and stage designer’s practice alongside new pieces created for the city. Running through January 17th, 2027, the exhibition explores Devlin’s enduring fascination with language, light, collective experience, and the relationship between art and public space.

For Seoul, Devlin has adapted her works to FUTURA SEOUL’s architecture, natural light, and the movement of visitors through its galleries. Familiar pieces acquire new connections as the building becomes an active part of the exhibition.

Among the featured projects is Library of Light, a large-scale installation conceived as a shared space for reading and collective reflection. Shown in Milan and Miami in 2025, it hosted daily reading programmes and welcomed more than one million visitors, turning reading into a communal public ritual.

Another key work, Come Home Again, was first installed outside Tate Modern in 2022. It combined drawings of 250 endangered London species with voices from local diasporic choirs, linking ecological loss with the city’s cultural histories and communities. Its Seoul iteration extends Devlin’s exploration of place, memory, and collective participation.

The exhibition also reflects Devlin’s expansive practice across sculpture, drawing, performance, music, language, and light. Forest of Us, created for Superblue Miami, explores the visual parallels between human lungs and trees, while Congregation, developed with UNHCR, brings together fifty portraits to consider the individual stories behind displacement and migration.

Known for spectacular stage designs for Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar, The Weeknd, U2, and Lady Gaga, Devlin treats performance environments as more than backdrops. Her spaces create worlds in which audiences become active participants, a sensibility that extends from stadiums and opera houses to galleries and public spaces. Step into the visionary world of Es Devlin in our interview, where she reflects on the power of repetition, the language of architecture, and the dialogue between creativity and the natural world.