AFP, LONDONThis year’s prestigious Turner Prize is to be shared by all four shortlisted artists after they formed a collective to show solidarity at a time of global “political crisis,” in a shock win announced on Tuesday evening. Oscar Murillo, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock and Tai Shani were all named winners at a ceremony at the Turner Contemporary gallery in the seaside town of Margate, in southeast England. Turner Contemporary director Victoria Pomery has described their work as “fantastic exhibitions.”Murillo had been the favorite to win. “We have very strong individual voices, but somehow the prize needed to be concluded in this way,” he said after the announcement. Part of his submission for the coveted prize involved recreating the acoustic memories of former inmates of a Syrian prison.

Source: Taipei Times December 04, 2019 16:07 UTC