Hew Locke — Portrait: John McKenzie © 2023 Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art
On display at COME CLOSER
Gilt, 2022
Sculpture, on loan
Four shiny sculptures are richly adorned. They appear like historical urns and trophies that you often see in museums in the West. Yet the title Gilt translates literally as ‘cheat’. Indeed, the beakers are not made of real gold, but of gilded resin. They are not even real vases. They are just beautiful façades and rough at the back. What is the value of museum pieces? What stories do they tell? And who decides?
- Continuous viewing
- Please do not touch