The four artists’ work emphasises social exclusion and silenced voices with considerable imagination and power
between two authors, Bernadine Evaristo and Margaret Atwood, as the judges said that they “couldn’t separate” the novels. This week the Bad Sex in Fiction award, for the year’s most toe-curling depictions of literary coupling, also announced two victors, for “there was no separating [them]”. Now the Turner prize, Britain’s premier award for contemporary art, has been awarded to all four shortlisted artists at once.
Rather than the product of indecisive judges, the surprise announcement on December 3rd came after the four nominees—Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo and Tai Shani—lobbied the jury to treat them as a collective. The artists met for the first time earlier this year at the prize’s official exhibition at Turner Contemporary in Margate.
A self-described “ear-witness” artist, Mr Abu Hamdan, who is 34, uses interviews with former detainees from the notorious Sednaya military prison, north of Damascus, as a way of exploring sound, memory and human rights. Ms Cammock, a 49-year-old artist from Staffordshire, specialises in social history, using film and photography as well as text and performance to look at the role of women, principally in the civil-rights movement in Northern Ireland.
The youngest of the four artists, Oscar Murillo , whose work has recently been shown at Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge and at the chi K11 art museum in Shanghai, puts a contemporary twist on conventional sculpture; he uses recycled materials to create figures from his native Colombia in a study of globalisation and displaced migrants.
Their work emphasises social exclusion and silenced voices with considerable imagination and power. Seen together, the four artworks—which are
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