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The Oval Court is an artwork created between 1984 and 1986 by British artist Helen Chadwick. The work was part of Chadwick's first major solo exhibition entitled Of Mutability, held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. Chadwick received a Turner Prize nomination in 1987 for the exhibition, making her one of the first women nominated for the prize. The work is currently in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington, London. The Oval Court refers to an entire room in the Of Mutability exhibition. On the walls of the room was a venetian glass mirror and photocopied images of the artist crying with tears made of blue foliage which flowed down into computer rendered drawings of the Baroque columns from the baldacchino of St Peter's Basilica, that reach down to the floor. As if formed from the artist's tears, the centre of the room contained an ovoid shaped, photocopied collage of blue toned A4 paper where multiple copies of the artist appear floating in a pool of plenty, with dead animals, insects, flowers, fruit and fish all swimming around her. In the centre of this platform is five golden spheres corresponding to the artists fingers as well as the touch of the divine. In the second room of the exhibition was Carcass (1986) a glass tower that was two metres high, full of rotting vegetable matter which the artist would refill daily. Carcass was adjacent to the room containing The Oval Court, the decay of Carcass seemed to loom over The Oval Court that was full of reminders of the transcience of life. (en) |
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The Oval Court is an artwork created between 1984 and 1986 by British artist Helen Chadwick. The work was part of Chadwick's first major solo exhibition entitled Of Mutability, held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. Chadwick received a Turner Prize nomination in 1987 for the exhibition, making her one of the first women nominated for the prize. The work is currently in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington, London. (en) |
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