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Used Teabags on radiator form part of art exhibition | Used Teabags on radiator form part of art exhibition |
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Used teabags on a white radiator have been unveiled as one of the artworks at a new exhibition in London. | Used teabags on a white radiator have been unveiled as one of the artworks at a new exhibition in London. |
Entitled We Will Multiply, it is by former Turner Prize-winner Laure Prouvost, who draws on the "everyday and domestic". | Entitled We Will Multiply, it is by former Turner Prize-winner Laure Prouvost, who draws on the "everyday and domestic". |
The work is part of an exhibition featuring four artists' work at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery. | The work is part of an exhibition featuring four artists' work at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery. |
Each artist was asked to extend and update late British conceptual artist John Latham's "world view". | Each artist was asked to extend and update late British conceptual artist John Latham's "world view". |
The tea bags on the radiator reference the period in which French artist Prouvost worked as Latham's studio assistant in the early 2000s. | |
The pair would drink a lot of tea together and afterwards, Latham would always dry the teabags on a radiator. | The pair would drink a lot of tea together and afterwards, Latham would always dry the teabags on a radiator. |
In another work, Prouvost has created replicas of eggs, eggshells, milk cartons and vegetables, while Douglas Gordon is encouraging people to play the "sculpture games" as he has exhibited a table tennis table and a billiard table. | In another work, Prouvost has created replicas of eggs, eggshells, milk cartons and vegetables, while Douglas Gordon is encouraging people to play the "sculpture games" as he has exhibited a table tennis table and a billiard table. |
Speak runs at the gallery from Thursday until 21 May. | Speak runs at the gallery from Thursday until 21 May. |
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