Dimensions: object: 1110 x 1113 x 560 mm
Copyright: © Gavin Turk | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: This is Gavin Turk's "Study for Window" from the Tate Collections. It features a glass case displaying what looks like a Union Jack and a black beret. The stark presentation feels almost like evidence. What do you see here? Curator: The composition is quite striking. Note the geometric interplay: the rectangular case, the flag's sharp diagonals against the soft curve of the beret. Observe how the materiality, the coolness of glass and metal, interacts with the symbolic weight of the objects within. Editor: So you're drawn to the contrast in shapes and textures? Curator: Precisely. It's a study in contrasts, a dialogue between form and content, between the readymade and its re-contextualization. It invites us to consider the nature of display itself. Editor: That's fascinating; I hadn't considered the display as a key element.
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Created at the time of the first Gulf War in 1991, the title of this work refers to The Sun newspaper’s instruction to place the printed flag ‘in your window’. By placing a colour photograph of himself over the newspaper’s Union Jack front page and positioning it in a museum display case, Turk holds up a mirror to cultural values and priorities. For Turk the mode of display forms a key part of his work’s subject: ‘At what point does the frame start and stop? I’m trying to frame the frame.’ Gallery label, September 2016
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