Artist in Conversation: Mike Nelson
Join artist Mike Nelson in conversation with Modern Art Oxford’s Head of Exhibitions, Amy Budd, to mark the opening of his major new exhibition.
Taking place in the context of the exhibition, their conversation will revisit Nelson’s 2004 Modern Art Oxford exhibition, Triple Bluff Canyon, and explore themes including narcissism, science fiction, the act of revisiting history and the shift from liberalism towards populism.
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Mike Nelson came to prominence in the late 1990s, creating psychological environments by sifting through the debris of modern life. His installations are expansive dominions for assemblages of cultural detritus, often referencing specific works of literature and countercultural or failed political movements. Working with figures and materials on the fringes of society, Nelson asks his viewers to spend time inhabiting worlds that, while foreign on the surface, reveal intrinsic truths and modes of thought that affect even the most basic cultural activities. His work has been widely shown and collected by, amongst others, Tate, Hayward Gallery and Moderna Museet, Stockholm. Nelson lives and works in London.