H BOX installation view at Tate Modern in London (Photo: jamesapallister)

Mobile galleries are a current fad sweeping exhibition hubs around the world, like a travelling circus for the cultural crowd. It started with Chanel’s Mobile Art Pod and continues apace with French luxury brand Hermes’ H BOX: a travelling screening space for newly commissioned video art. After the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Musac in Léon and Mudam in Luxembourg, H BOX is currently making a stopover at Tate Modern’s turbine hall, before it will travel to the Yokohama Triennale in Japan.

Designed by artist, architect and designer Didier Fiuza Faustino, the unique structure hosts a rotating, diverse programme of commissioned videos by Alice Anderson, Yael Bartana, Sebastián Díaz-Morales, Dora García, Judit Kúrtag, Valérie Mréjen, Shahryar Nashat, and Su-Mei Tse.

Consisting of two entirely collapsible modules constructed of aluminium and plexiglas, H BOX can be assembled, disassembled and transported as required. Ten people at a time fit into the screening room, which shows the eight videos in succession. The cutting-edge sound and image technology draws viewers deep into the projected art.

H BOX runs till August 17 at Turbine Hall Bridge, Tate Modern, London.

Interior of H BOX at Tate Modern in London. still from film - midway by judit kurtag, 2007 (Photo: jamesapallister).

Watch a clip from the film by Dora Garcia, a Spanish-born, Brussels-based artist, whose work combines video, writing and performance. (Wallpaper.com)

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