Classic Meets Contemporary
In June 2025, Sam Wilde debuted an interactive fine art pattern exhibition Equi–II at the V&A in South Kensington as part of the museum’s flagship programme curated by Kristian Volsing and produced by Adonis Fuyana and Faunsia Tucker.
Over the course of the installation, more than one thousand visitors placed their own unique wooden Frog Tessellation tile into a growing communal mural at the centre of the museum's grand hall. Placed one-by-one the tiles locked together forming a large-scale organic artwork shaped by personal choices, collective interaction and social dynamics of the crowd.
Over the course of the installation, more than one thousand visitors placed their own unique wooden Frog Tessellation tile into a growing communal mural at the centre of the museum's grand hall. Placed one-by-one the tiles locked together forming a large-scale organic artwork shaped by personal choices, collective interaction and social dynamics of the crowd.
Aesthetics of Agency
All components of Equi–II were made using organic or recycled materials, with the Frog Tessellation tiles crafted from UK-grown birchwood and individually packaged in recyclable foil packs and paper envelopes.
Frenetic energy took hold as more than twenty tiles were placed each minute at the height of the installation, while overhead cameras and roaming videographers documented not just the final form of the fine art pattern, but the movement, impulse and human connection behind it. A communal act of co-authorship in a museum context, one tile at a time.
