The artist, who took lockers from a gay sauna into galleries, has turned the former home secretary’s speech about the illegal migration bill into a sinister sonic maelstrom
’s most disconcerting sculptures include a giant flea, a pair of hoodies suspended in the jaundiced glow of a sodium street lamp, and a cracked obsidian mirror which emits real-life hate speech recorded in a gay chatroom. His latest work is inspired by a figure arguably more sinister than anything he has previously confronted: Suella Braverman.
“I treated it quite sculpturally because that’s the only way I know how to work with sound,” he says. “There’s one bit where it’s like foghorns, another that is quite metallic. It was interesting to think about what it meant to reverse it. For me, it was trying to refute her words, and have them mirror her sentiment of sending people back.”Photograph: Hendrik Zeitler/Courtesy Prem Sahib and Phillida Reid, London.
“Some of my work repositions the viewer on the outside looking in,” he says. “And a lot of what Braverman talks about involves protecting borders. I kept noticing the way she speaks on behalf of ‘the British people’, which feels very dark. It’s a violent, divisive idea because your agency is being removed when she says that. There’s also the positioning of ‘adult males under 40’, which isolates a threat to do with a certain demographic.”Photograph: Jessica Taylor/UK PARLIAMENT/AFP/Getty Images.
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