Bollywood posters and fluorescent effigies of Hindu deities have been superimposed on Tate Britain's portico, as part of an installation designed by artist Chila Kumari Singh Burman for the museum's fourth annual winter commission.
Entitled Remembering A Brave New World, the design was unveiled to coincide with Diwali, the five-day Indian festival which celebrates the triumph of light over darkness.
In this spirit, Burman clad the museum's facade in a menagerie of multi-coloured neon lights, which penetrate the darkness of London's shortening days, overshadowing the building's traditional, neoclassical architecture and its historical connotations.
The installation encompasses the portico and pediment of the Tate Britain
"It's important to critique buildings like this because they're very Eurocentric," Burman told Dezeen. "So, I just thought: why not do something that captures what we're all going through right now" I felt like it needed a blast of joy and light. And Diwali is about good over evil, about hope, unity and the light at the end of the tunnel."

Burman, who describes herself as a Punjabi Liverpudlian, drew on a bricolage of cultural influences to create the installation, which merges Indian mythology with pop cultural references, inspirational slogans and cherished childhood memories.
The luminous silhouette of an ice cream van, for example, which stands on the landing of Tate Britain's grand staircase, is a nod to the fact that her fathe...