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TATE Modern review: Cecilia Vicuña’s hanging mobiles 11 October 2022-16 April 2023
Oct 10 2022- Madeleine
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Today’s TATE Modern visit was about as far away from the apples and pears upstairs – aka Cezanne’s exhibition – as you can get. Hanging the full height of the turbine hall, were two ghostly apparitions. And to be very frank, I felt a bit non+ed.
Think giant Jurassic jellyfish meets Miss Havisham’s wedding dress (in Dickens’ Great expectations) meets spring-look Dementor meets Mudlarker’s bathroom shelf … I know, right? What IS one supposed to think?
The artist, a quietly-spoken, petite lady with long plaits, and the curator were thankfully on hand to demystify. It turned out this wasn’t abstract make-of-it-what-you-like-type art. It was an exercise in symbolism.
