In November 2014, an exhibition called Nobody Spoke opened at the Lisson Gallery in London. The show took its name from its centrepiece, an installation of 17 small chairs, each made of 10 canvases painted in black and white with haphazard images and texts.
Some of these reappeared in drawings on a nearby wall; the chairs themselves starred in an adjoining 40-minute video, this time occupied by members of a German artists’ collective who debated the nature of ekphrasis (the description of pictures in words). It was, and was meant to be, very confusing. The work had all been made by a group called Art & Language, one of whose last two remaining members, Mel Ramsden, has died aged 79. Continue reading...
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