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Next showing of MONSTER, a kinetic installation shall be at the LEFT BANK, LEEDS - 13th to 29th January 2022.
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Next showing of MONSTER, a kinetic installation shall be at the LEFT BANK, LEEDS - 13th to 29th January 2022.
Book Now.
MONSTER, A KINETIC INSTALLATION first exhibited in The Truman Stables, London. 2020
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I started with the idea of building a piece that played out the insecurities and pain of a nation in the midst of a communal nervous breakdown. A nation in ill health. I even gave the animatronic characters persistent dry coughs……( which took on a heavier significance by the time I actually exhibited the piece).
I looked at the politics of pain. How the British public seemed to be swept up into this hysterical bout of self harm. Where anything was seen as a release from the dull pain of the status quo.
But as the project progressed, I focused on the relationship that exists between the Establishment and the people they exercise control over.
There are so many different dynamics being played out within this relationship but you don’t have to dig too deep before you clearly see it is fundamentally abusive and dishonest. It is built upon lie after lie. It is fuelled by a complacent contempt for the average citizen. It is a relationship in which the vicious perpetrator cries out “ I love you” whilst you nurse your bleeding nose and broken finger.
- GILES WALKER
MONSTER, A KINETIC INSTALLATION first exhibited in The Truman Stables, London. 2020
”
I started with the idea of building a piece that played out the insecurities and pain of a nation in the midst of a communal nervous breakdown. A nation in ill health. I even gave the animatronic characters persistent dry coughs……( which took on a heavier significance by the time I actually exhibited the piece).
I looked at the politics of pain. How the British public seemed to be swept up into this hysterical bout of self harm. Where anything was seen as a release from the dull pain of the status quo.
But as the project progressed, I focused on the relationship that exists between the Establishment and the people they exercise control over.
There are so many different dynamics being played out within this relationship but you don’t have to dig too deep before you clearly see it is fundamentally abusive and dishonest. It is built upon lie after lie. It is fuelled by a complacent contempt for the average citizen. It is a relationship in which the vicious perpetrator cries out “ I love you” whilst you nurse your bleeding nose and broken finger.
- GILES WALKER
“Giles Walker is a master sculptor and a genius”
- Ken Russell