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Simon Starling

Conceptual artist

United Kingdom · b. 1967

English conceptual artist who won the Turner Prize in 2005.

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Question How do you know when a piece of work is finished? Craft & work read 31 other answers →

I don’t know if they ever really are. I mean, there are often works that you make for a particular moment and then maybe the next time you show them, you show them in a slightly different way so that they become more precise or more communicative. So they’re constantly evolving. Also, when you stick one work next to another work, suddenly it has a new resonance. You could almost argue that, in that new context, it’s a new work again. So I don’t know if you ever really finish anything.

Recorded The Talks, 2 October 2019 source ↗

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