Perhaps it is because they were produced ‘against a backdrop of struggling economic recession and high unemployment’ that they resonate so acutely now, says Heather Smith on our Arts+Culture site about Plymouth’s Lucy Orta exhibition, but why did she laugh when she got there?
Apparently, Lucy Orta is ‘an artist who uses her studio work together with performances, public interventions and workshops to challenge society and stimulate debate on a wide range of issues, including identity, community, homelessness and the environment’. The results can be pretty intriguing, if not down-right humorous.
Read the review on Arts+Culture, visit the exhibition, and share your views.
(Image: Lucy Orta, Refuge Wear – Habitent, 1992-93 Collection of the Artists, Photo: Anne de Villepoix Gallery.)
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