Art Installations, Sculpture, Contemporary Art

Representing Great Britain, installation artist Mike Nelson is also featured in Singapore currently.

Mike Nelson's graveyard of wounded plinths functions as an imitation of a once-grand exhibition. seemingly suffering from an attack and complete disrepair, the breaking and destruction of objects helps the viewer to conjure a memory of clean surfaces and contrast their memories with the environment of the piece.

Built from the remains of a previous exhibition, nelson took the destructed panels and rebuilt them into the plinths seen here. Originally on display in london in an clean white-walled space, it is at the 2011 singapore biennale on the bare concrete floors and almost abandoned
looking space that the piece plays a heavier role for viewer. The usual mixing of theatrical elements and fabricated objects found in Nelson's work comes to play in the building itself being surrounded by overgrown natural elements, extending the piece outside of the room.

Via Rebecah Beauchamp