The judges of the Turner prize have issued a challenge by awarding it to Charlotte Prodger this week. Please plan your visit accordingly.” The reason for this admonition is that all the work in the exhibition is film, video or moving image. The Turner prize exhibition captures the mood of the times – and especially a growing sense among artists and curators that the aesthetic tools at their disposal can to be put to political use. When historians look back at the 2018 Turner prize, they will see an art that is full of uncertainty, foreboding and seriousness of intent. As with today’s chaotic politics, it would be a fool’s game to predict where all this is heading.

Source: The Guardian December 07, 2018 18:22 UTC