Visitors inside Battersea Power Station’s Turbine Halls can look up and see a vibrant site-specific installation this summer celebrating the movement of the sun through a series of colourful banners.
‘Together We Rise’ is the handiwork of London’s POoR Collective and features over 100 individual flags suspended inside the power station’s former turbine halls, taking viewers on a visual journey from sunrise to sunset.
POoR Collective–which stands for Power Out of Restriction–comprises architects Larry Botchway, Shawn Adams, and Ben Spry and accountant Matt Harvey-Agyemang, who work with young people to provide access to the design industry. The group drew inspiration from a particularly spectacular sunrise over the Grade II*-listed power station, translating this solar movement and light show into a series of graphic textiles that riff on the building’s Art Deco heritage.
The Art Deco Turbine Hall A houses ‘Sunrise’, with its warm shades of blue, pink, and orange. Next door, in the 1950s Turbine Hall B, ‘Sunset’ features vibrant pinks, oranges, and yellows. A disc representing the sun undulates across the textile banners, charting the movement of the sun above Battersea in the course of 24 hours.
‘Together We Rise’ will be in situ until 13 October and is a cheerful prelude to POoR Collective’s upcoming installation at Battersea Power Station for the London Design Festival in September.
POoR Collective previously collaborated with London-based architecture practice GPAD to reimagine a dilapidated two-storey sports pavilion building in Copthall Playing Fields, designed a colourful pavilion with students from Mayesbrook Park School, and produced a series of colourful public murals in London designed by young people.
See more of ‘Together We Rise’ by POoR Collective in the gallery.
Photography: Charlie Round-Turner
Photography: Charlie Round-Turner
Photography: Charlie Round-Turner
Photography: Charlie Round-Turner
