Mire Lee’s 2025 Hyundai Commission Open Wound transformed Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall into what she describes as an ‘industrial womb,’ brought to life by both kinetic machines and human effort. Blending moments from industrial history with surrealist themes, Lee uncovers human dreams and desires within vast technological systems and examines how industrial and post-industrial landscapes affect the human body. Using a wide range of materials, Lee creates works that provoke deep, emotional reactions.

In March 2026, CHERUBY supported the closing programme for Lee’s commission with an evening of programmed co-curated by artist James Richards and Tate curator Alvin Li, with support from Bilal Akkouche. Titled “A Map of the Pit”, the programme built on the shared interests of Lee and Richards and combines collage techniques in an experiment across disciplines and media. It includes new live performances and presentations by Gary A Boyd, Megan Fernandes & Sa’dia Rehman, and Lucy Beech + Sarah Dacey and Rosie Middleton; and films by Jumana Manna, Errol Morris, James Richards, Amina Ross, and P.Staff. It takes the audience on a journey through various landscapes and moods, from Britain’s coalfields to East Jerusalem to Shanghai’s streets at night, from slaughterhouse architecture to the glow of phone screens.

For over a decade James Richards has developed a distinct practice rooted in the collage of images and sound, driven by a commitment to the role of desire in an increasingly mediated reality. With a sensitivity to intensities generated by different spaces and exhibitionary formats, Richards is also known for collaborations where he moves fluidly between the role of artist, composer and curator, with attempts to, in his own words, ‘find the porous line between inside and outside, self and other, the body and the world.’

The two-hour programme is divided into two parts, with a 30-minute intermission.