TateShots: Bill Viola

A special display of Bill Viola’s Tiny Deaths 1993 at Tate Modern coincides with the installation of a new work by the artist in St Paul’s Cathedral entitled Martyrs (Earth, Air, Fire, Water). Bill Viola and curator Matthew Gale talk us through the genus of the project and how the artist took on the challenge of creating the first moving-image artwork to be installed in a British cathedral or church on a long-term basis. Martyrs, a work by Bill Viola and Kira Perov, features four individuals, across four