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Weekly Update — Mark Wallinger’s slow motion ode to life, loss and transience

This week’s Weekly has my review of Mark Wallinger’s video at Pafa.  Below is my copy with some pictures.  More photos at flickr. Mark Wallinger‘s video Treshold to the Kingdom is a quiet oasis in the hot, noisy, hurly-burly of summer in the city. The piece from 2000 by the British artist and 2007 Turner Prize winner is simplicity itself.  A stationary camera placed in front of the closed double doors at the International Arrivals Hall at London City Airport captures passengers arriving after a trip.  There’s a lone employee sitting behind a desk, a sphinx-like guardian of the gates. ... More » »