Sunday: 12:00 — 17:00
For the third collaboration with Kiko Kostadinov, American artist Ryan Trecartin reimagines Stunt Tank (2016) within the London store environment. Continuing a series of spatial interventions first realized in Tokyo and Los Angeles, the installation extends an ongoing dialogue between the artist and the brand that considers retail architecture as an active site of performance, spectatorship, and social choreography.
This new iteration revisits a sculptural theater initially conceived in partnership with Trecartin's longstanding creative collaborator Lizzie Fitch and realized alongside Rhett LaRue. LaRue, who also contributed to the design of the inaugural Kiko Kostadinov retail spaces, returns here as part of an expanded experiment in translating video architecture into built form. The project merges Fitch and Trecartin's collaborative methodologies with the brand's evolving spatial language, bringing together two sustained networks of practice, one rooted in moving image and the other in garment design.
In its original presentation, Stunt Tank operated as both film and environment: a forty-four-minute video set within a sculptural theater built from pontoon boat railings, seating, and modular architectural fragments. The structure resembled a floating stage, part leisure craft and part containment vessel, where viewing became an act of participation. Within the work, the pontoon's dual function as recreational space and enclosed circuit shaped a meditation on movement and stasis. A character remarks, “Stay there but be prepared to move,” and later, “Animate this as if I'm moving forward.” These lines frame a paradox central to Stunt Tank: the experience of being stuck as a kind of performance, where the potential for motion becomes its own form of choreography.
Scenes within the video oscillate between different modes of time and proximity. Intimacies shift, and distances between characters, language, the camera, and the viewer expand and contract in rhythmic succession. In the London installation, these temporal and spatial modulations are translated into an ambient architectural composition that feels less theatrical and more environmental. Materials, reflections, and display structures form a continuous field of motion and stillness, situating the viewer within a dynamic yet suspended environment.
Across their ongoing collaboration, Ryan Trecartin and Kiko Kostadinov cultivate a "version-hood" that fuses art, fashion, and performance into experiential systems. Stunt Tank embodies this convergence, transforming the act of inhabiting a store into a live field of perception, an ever-circulating choreography of bodies, materials, and images that remains perpetually poised between movement and rest.
Artwork
Lizzie Fitch / Ryan Trecartin with Rhett LaRue
Stunt Tank, 2016
Unique sculptural theater with single-channel HD Video, 44:13 loop
Components: pontoon chairs, custom railing, carpet, paint, drop ceiling, lighting, ambient sound
Dimension variable
Courtesy of Sprüth Magers and Morán Morán
Credits
Courtesy of THISS studio, London, 2025
Photography by Pierre Le Hors
