The Turner Prize shortlist: A look at who’s in the running
The artists all ‘tackle the most pressing political and humanitarian issues of today’.
Four artists have been shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2018.
The artists, all “tackling the most pressing political and humanitarian issues of today”, includes a group, Forensic Architecture.
These are the names in the running for the £25,000 prize:
The academic unit, at Goldsmiths, University of London, is comprised of around 16 members.
It includes architects, filmmakers, software developers, investigative journalists, lawyers and scientists.
Forensic Architecture uses “innovative methods” to source and visualise evidence relating to human rights abuses around the world, investigating “state and corporate violations worldwide”.
Judges said their “urgent” and “important” work was some of the most “radical and ground-breaking art practice going on right now”.
Naeem Mohaiemen
The London-born 49-year-old’s work includes film, installations and essays and investigates a “sense of melancholia for lost political dreams”, memories of Leftist political utopias and “legacies of decolonisation”.
Mohaiemen works in New York and Dhaka.
Charlotte Prodger
Her film Bridgit, named after a Neolithic deity, was shot entirely on her iPhone, “which she approaches as a prosthesis or extension of the nervous system” with the “body and device becoming extensions of each other”.
Her work is described as “a new kind of self-portrait” and a “meditation on what it is to be human”.
The jury praised Prodger “for the nuanced way in which she deals with identity politics, particularly from a queer perspective” and for tackling “how we understand our place in the world”.
They said of her use of the iPhone: “It’s the extension to the body that really interests her”.
Luke Willis Thompson
Willis Thompson investigates the treatment of minority communities.
The 30-year-old, who lives in London, tackles the histories of class, racial and social inequality, institutional violence, colonialism and forced migration.
In 2016, Reynolds broadcast live, on Facebook, the moments immediately after the fatal shooting of her partner, Philando Castile, by a police officer during a traffic stop in the US.