Laura Carter

Laura Carter

Tuesday 4 May 2010

Tramway

This piece at the Tramway by Christoph Buchel was something that left me feeling horrified and amazed and still thinking about it for days afterwards. I don't really think I've ever been particually moved by a piece of art before, not like that anyway. Its hard to describe this piece except that you find yourself going from a pub...to a prison and then to a plane crash that is being pieced back together but you are totally unsure why.

A review by the skinny said: "Exploring Büchel’s work is a strange and affecting experience, provoking many contradictory reactions from moment to moment, excitement-dread-pleasure oddly coexisting and leaving us confused, drained yet oddly fulfilled when we are eventually spat out back at the entrance. Go."

In this review by the guardian it says "Büchel makes other installation artists look like wimps"


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