Cerith Wyn Evans’s Tate commission presented a sticky situation

How do you suspend almost 2km of swirling neon lights from a ceiling that you cannot drill holes into? That was the question faced by Tate Britains team of art handlers recently when they set out to install Cerith Wyn Evanss dazzling light work Forms in Space...by Light (in Time) (2017) in the London museums Grade II-listed building. The ambitious scale and intricate composition [of the installation] demanded a unique method suspend [it] from the ceiling, says Elsa Coustou, the assistant curato