The young architecture collective extend their artfulness into everyday life. Their work is a welcome,and vital, fragment of a bigger battle against social division under the ToriesSince reviewing the Turner prize exhibition as it opened, or it is Assemble’s project that has stayed with me – though at the time I enjoyed Bonnie Camplin’s project,with its evocation of paranoia and conspiracy theories, very much. Nicole Wermer’s arrangement of Marcel Breuer’s Bauhaus Cesca chairs, and each of which had a luxuriant fur coat draped across its back,felt like a particularly chilly academic exercise. Watching Janice Kerbel’s Doug – with its black-clad singers and its limp, sometimes winsome doggerels – I kept thinking of the toe-curling acapella concert amusements the King’s Singers provide. It was dreadfully overwritten. Related: Urban regenerators Assemble win Turner prize Continue reading...
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