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A British artist has transported a motorway flyover bridge into London's Tate Britain as part of a new immersive exhibit, which opens Tuesday (24 September 2019).
Mark Leckey's "O'Magic Power of Bleakness" explores aspects of memory and the supernatural.
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Under the cover of flickering bulbs and sharp beams of light, British artist Mark Leckey has transported visitors back to his childhood.
For his new solo exhibit, Leckey has filled an entire gallery space at Tate Britain with a life-sized replica of a section of motorway flyover, close to his childhood home.
Underneath the bridge, Leckey is premiering a new audio-visual installation, called "Under Under In 2019".
It was inspired by a supernatural encounter he claims to have had under the bridge when he was young.
"It's about recollection, it's about recalling things, and how things get recalled either through media, through transmissions, through kind of distortions of media and how things that are more kind of ancient or older kind of memories, I guess, folk memories, kind of mutate through these kind of modern technologies," says Leckey, during a press event at Tate Britain.
Curator Elsa Coustou says there's a supernatural element too.
"You are following five kids under the bridge and one of them is taken away by a fairy, and the idea is based on fairy folklore, the idea of changeling," she explains.
"So, when a child is taken away by a fairy and replaced by another child. So, Leckey with this work is building on his own memories and experience of encountering some supernatural creature when he was about seven or eight."
The new exhibit, that's set to open Tuesday (24 September) and run till January 2020, also includes two previous works by Leckey - all video based.
Since coming to prominence in the 1990s, Leckey has often explored the relationship between popular culture and technology. He was awarded the Turner Prize in 2008.
Coustou says he combines several different types of video - from iPhone-shot movies to 19th century theatre illusions.
"I think what's exciting is the scale of the videos, also the different techniques used," she says.
"Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore" is a compilation of found footage from British dance floors, chronicling Britain's underground scene from Northern Soul to Rave.
"You see a portrait of Britain from the 60s to the turn of the century in 1999," says Coustou.
"You also see that with a change in technology, in youth subcultures and styles and way of clubbing or raving. So for me, it's a way of looking at time passing, really."
"Mark Leckey: O'Magic Power of Bleakness" runs 24 September - 5 January 2020 at London's Tate Britain.
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