Alice Anderson: Memory Movement Memory Objects @ Wellcome Collection

Alice Anderson wraps everyday objects in copper wire. It is a banal description of an art that gets some very curious and uncanny results. Alice Anderson is working in a tradition almost a century old when she conceals charger plugs, coins, a telescope, a kayak, spectacles and even a staircase in shrouds of wire. But her art is glutinous in the memory. The reason it works is because she takes the whole thing so stupendously seriously. This is passionate, obsessive, intensely concentrated work. The exhibition is huge. Just when you think she’s wrapped everything there is to wrap, she discovers something else, including human bones and a kayak – real or fake, it is impossible to tell through the veiling wire.

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