16/10/13
Daniel Silver: Dig
The Odeon Site, 24
Grafton Way
12 September – 3
November 2013
It might appear that we are miles away from civilisation –
at least, from what we know this to be, in terms of the every day hustle and
bustle of London – but, in fact, not only are we surrounded by what could well
be remnants and remains, artefacts and evidence, of myriad other civilisations,
both modern and ancient, but, we are, in fact, almost as centrally placed in
the English capital as it is possible to be.
In fact, we are standing in the one
time multi-storey car park on the long derelict site of one of London’s largest
Odeon cinemas, on Grafton Way, just off Tottenham Court Road. This dark, dank, deserted
basement is currently host to the latest Artangel commission, Dig, by sculptor
Daniel Silver.
Fragments, oddments, body parts and
tools are strewn all around, assembled on wooden benches, like in an
archaeological workshop. Taller figures and busts, some on plinths, rise out of
the mud and clay.
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