MADE UP
Projects:
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Ai Weiwei
Artist, architect, curator and prolific blogger, Ai Weiwei’s practise defies easy categorisation, except perhaps for a recurring delight in play and provocation. Ai often draws on the materials of the past for his work, transforming them through assembly, remoulding, or sheer destruction, into present day commentary.
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Atelier Bow Wow
Founded in 1992 by Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kajima, Atelier Bow Wow is dedicated to the “practice of lively space”. ‘Lively’ encapsulates the playfulness inherent in all their structures (large and small) but also, more importantly, illustrates their fascination with and commitment to design determined by use and context.
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Manfredi Beninati
Manfredi Beninati’s installations transport us to fictitious worlds, redolent of dreams and half forgotten memories. Interiors furnished with all the signs and hints of human occupation lie abandoned and beyond reach, tantalising us with their half-told stories.
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David Blandy
Through video, performance and comic strips as the Barefoot Lone Pilgrim, David Blandy integrates real life and virtual adventures.
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Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s Arbores Laetae playfully reinvents the tradition of the public park. The work transforms a brownfield site, situated on a key route into city centre, into a beautiful wooded space for contemplation.
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Nancy Davenport
A Canadian artist living and working in New York, Nancy Davenport constructs reality-bending images that fall somewhere between photography and moving image, stillness and high-speed, fiction and document.
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Leandro Erlich
Leandro Erlich’s playful installations challenge our perception of reality. His impeccably constructed architectural scenarios deliberately mix the real with the fictional to tease our sense of perception.
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Jesper Just
Jesper Just’s films mix a rich visual aesthetic with dark humour to create highly ambiguous narratives exploring human emotion and the social construction of gender.
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Otto Karvonen
Working principally outside the gallery, Otto Karvonen makes simple, often humorous interventions into everyday life, designed to prompt us to question the nature of reality and our own beliefs.
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Yayoi Kusama
Working across a broad range of media, Kusama is perhaps best known for her compulsive repetition of a recurring vocabulary of forms – polka dots, or phallic tubers, for example – often rendered on bright yellow or red backgrounds.
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Ulf Langheinrich
In the works of Ulf Langheinrich, contexts, social settings, gestures and meanings are of no interest.
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Gabriel Lester
Gabriel Lester has long been fascinated with the mechanisms of illusion. Working in film, installation, and sculpture, his work explores and exploits the strategies and sleights of hand that cause us to suspend our disbelief.
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Annette Messager
Annette Messager’s highly theatrical installations occupy a space somewhere between the fairytale and the grotesque, provoking both amusement and horror, pleasure and fear.
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Tracey Moffatt
Since the 1980s, Tracey Moffatt’s works has been characterised by a delicious ambiguity that leaves viewers wondering where reality ends and fantasy begins.
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Yoko Ono
A key figure in both the Fluxus and Conceptual Art movements of the 1960’s and 1970's, Yoko Ono continues to work across a broad range of disciplines and media, including music, performance and installation.
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Khalil Rabah
Using narratives that hover between fiction and reality, Khalil Rabah’s installations, objects, videos, actions and interventions articulate the effects of war on Palestinian society, its economy and identity.
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The Royal Art Lodge
Initiated in 1996 by six undergraduates at the University of Manitoba, Canada, The Royal Art Lodge turned heads early in its career for producing playfully eccentric collaborative drawings and paintings, where one artist begins and then passes the work along to another, and so on.
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Sarah Sze
Sarah Sze creates intricate landscapes from everyday materials (thumb tacks, cotton buds, ladders, desk lamps) arranged in a succession of ever more precarious dependencies.
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Tomas Saraceno
Trained as an architect, since 2002 Tomas Saraceno has been developing his ideas for cities built in the air. His ongoing project Air-Port-City imagines a network of biospheres (or habitable cells) in the sky, like clouds, constantly moving, changing shape, and merging with one another.
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Richard Woods
Richard Woods transforms real surfaces into cartoon like versions – whether in his overtly fake wooden floors; or block printed renderings of brick or tudor architecture.
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Alison Jackson
Working in photography, film and sculpture, Alison Jackson explores the slippage between fantasy and reality in our contemporary obsession with celebrity culture.
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David Altmejd
David Altmejd is known for creating works which set up a duality between a geometric architectural space and more figurative material, made manifest in his well known platform-like sculptures housing a glittering cabinet of curiosities.
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Guy Ben-Ner
Low-tech, but ingeniously inventive, Guy Ben-Ner’s videos often centre on home and family, exploring, exposing and exploiting the relationship he has with his children.
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U-Ram Choe
U-Ram Choe's work engages a fanciful dialogue of aesthetics and machinery, and explores themes of biological transformation, flight, and movement.
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Adam Cvijanovic
Adam Cvijanovic’s invented technique of painting directly on Tyvek (the DuPont material used in FedEx envelopes as well as in construction of new homes) opens up the possibility of making painting architectural again by adhering the paper directly to the wall.
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Omer Fast
Omer Fast is considered as one of the most innovative video-artists working today. Through various strategies of digital manipulation, his work draws attention to the fine line between documentary and fiction, memory, perception, and history as reflected in the present moment in time.
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Rodney Graham
Rodney Graham is recognised internationally for his intellectually rigorous art, developed since the mid seventies. His multi layered and complex art includes many diverse media from photographs, installations, music, book works and film, often negotiating between the many different identities and territories and drawing connections between them.
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Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler
Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler have been working collaboratively in video, photography and sculpture since 1990.
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Ged Quinn
Ged Quinn’s paintings introduce new and universal topics, evolving from a spectrum of sources in art history, photographs, memory, newspaper cuttings and books.
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Adrian Ghenie
Adrian Ghenie is a young Romanian painter whose works demonstrate his fascination with history and the trauma of dictatorship. The sources for his images are derived from a combination of his own personal memories and from historical books, archives and both documentary and fictional film.
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Luisa Lambri
Luisa Lambri is a photographer who has devoted herself almost exclusively to architecture as her primary subject matter, and has dedicated several series of work to some of the greatest masters of Modernism (Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Alvar Aalto, Giuseppe Terragni and Phillip Johnson).
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The Drawing Room at Tate
Conceived to further explore the theme of ‘Made Up’, The Drawing Room at Tate Liverpool highlights the importance of the medium of drawing in the cognitive and physical act of making up.
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Stranger than Fiction at FACT
Stranger than Fiction, in Gallery 2 and in public spaces at FACT, presents a number works that reference sensory deprivation, the unearthing of memory, objects and history, where the audience is invited to build their own connections in confronting the void.
