carpets

Over a century later, the Colombian-born artist Doris Salcedo symbolised the lack of nameless lives via her big, unsettling towers of empty chairs, which referenced the Colombian conflict, the government’s battle with crime syndicates and far-right and far-left groups. More literally, the facility buildings and futile lines of division that cause such deaths have been tackled in Shibboleth, a work that saw Salcedo drill into the concrete flooring of Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall to kind a crack that cut up the vast room in two. The award attracted an unprecedented volume of entries, with more than 420 works submitted by Aotearoa New Zealand artists based mostly here and overseas. Leading New Zealand legislation firm Tompkins Wake is the principal sponsor and has supported the competitors since 2014. The guest choose for 2023, highly revered art curator Melanie Oliver, adhered to a blind-judging process to choose the winning work from a …