Mike Nelson
Talk Art
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The Caravan Asai in Istanbul
This is a huge sort of bobbin to go back to textiles from that would have had spools of cloth on. That's from the Caravan Asai in Istanbul, because what this original show, its beginnings came from was a space in 2003. There were weaving machines still using these, I think there might be early 1900 weaving machines from Switzerland. And so in a way, the red light refers to that as well, and later on it was developing. Yeah. When I came to make the Venice Biennale, I took the negatives of the photographs of the building, which is all I had left, and then I built the building back around the negatives. So it's
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