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Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Leckey has curated an exhibition that explores the magical world of new technology, as well as tracing its connections to the beliefs of our distant past.
Historical and contemporary works of art, videos, machines, archaeological artefacts and iconic objects, such as a giant inflatable cartoon figure of Felix the Cat( the first image ever transmitted on TV), inhabit an enchanted landscape in our galleries where objects seem to communicate with each other and with us.
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Leckey ' s exhibition reflects on a world where technology can bring inanimate“ things” to life and where the real and the virtual co-exist. While we already live in a world where fridges talk to you, phones give you directions and websites predict what you want, by digitising objects, we can also make them“ disappear” from the material world, re-emerging in any place or era. It seems we have, simultaneously, gone back to our ancestral past when ancient civilisations believed spirits inhabited objects, plants and animals. |
Leckey ' s theatre of“ things” is presented in specially designed environments. Works by artists such as William Blake, Louise Bourgeois, Martin Creed, Richard Hamilton, Nicola Hicks, Jim Shaw and Tøyen are displayed alongside a medieval silver hand containing the bones of a saint, an electronic prosthetic hand that connects with Bluetooth, a bisected 3D model of Snoopy showing his internal organs, and many other treasures that all share connections. |
Cover Image: David Musgrave, Animal( 1998). Courtesy Greengrassi, London. Photo: Marcus Leith. © the artist. |