Susan Philipsz won the Turner Prize … but you can’t see why | News
Susan Philipsz won the Turner Prize … but you can’t see why | News
Philipsz's sound installations, most of which feature her self-admittedly ordinary, folksy voice, are neutered when shown in the minimal, sterile confines of the art gallery.
However, when they are in atmospheric locations such as under the Clyde bridges or in the City of London, where Philipsz's project Surround Me is running every weekend until January 2, then her work has a moving poetry and mystery.
In the City, she is presenting mournful madrigals and canons from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras in six locations.
These laments haunt the locations, from the hotch-potch of brutalist buildings of Moorfields Highwalk near the Barbican, to the river walk under London Bridge and the courtyard of the 14th-century tower of All Hallows Staining church.
And this is where she is an artist and not a musician — she asks us to respond not just with our ears, but to look around us, to think about the place in which we stand. In doing so, she reopened my eyes to the City's diverse architecture and rich history.
Her work commands and occupies its locations with the authority of the best sculptures.
Philipsz's sound installations, most of which feature her self-admittedly ordinary, folksy voice, are neutered when shown in the minimal, sterile confines of the art gallery.
However, when they are in atmospheric locations such as under the Clyde bridges or in the City of London, where Philipsz's project Surround Me is running every weekend until January 2, then her work has a moving poetry and mystery.
In the City, she is presenting mournful madrigals and canons from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras in six locations.
These laments haunt the locations, from the hotch-potch of brutalist buildings of Moorfields Highwalk near the Barbican, to the river walk under London Bridge and the courtyard of the 14th-century tower of All Hallows Staining church.
And this is where she is an artist and not a musician — she asks us to respond not just with our ears, but to look around us, to think about the place in which we stand. In doing so, she reopened my eyes to the City's diverse architecture and rich history.
Her work commands and occupies its locations with the authority of the best sculptures.
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