New work developed by artists Christina Peake, Erika Tan and Yu-Chen Wang are on display in the Tate Modern’s South Tanks, as part of Transforming Collections Artist Research Residencies.

Peake presents an archipelago of imagined objects that appear to have been taken from marine environments in the Caribbean, including Wayfinding Shells – Exodus, ‘the Maroons’ Diadem – Soul Bonded, Divination Bowl – The Last Mangrove, Graeme Hall Sanctuary, and Submerged Mothers – Ancestral Reef Regeneration. Animated by underwater footage captured off the coast of Cornwall, and accompanied by speculative narratives, these artefacts become living entities evoking the spirit of the communities, individuals, and multiple worlds they may have come from. The artefacts are joined together via the coral island, to show the connection between collections and cosmologies, histories, and futures.

Curated by susan pui san lok and Mark Miller, the Museum x Machine x Me programme aims to share some of the practice research insights and findings generated by the 3-year project, Transforming Collections: Reimagining Art, Nation and Heritage, led by the University of the Arts London (UAL) Decolonising Arts Institute and Creative Computing Institute with Tate, and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.