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ICA London Presents Tino SehgalIn 2005 the exhibition will consist of two works that will introduce Sehgal's unique artistic practice. In the Lower Gallery, Sehgal will present his earliest piece 'Instead of allowing some thing to rise up to your face dancing bruce and dan and other things' (2000) which makes reference to the video-work of the artists Dan Graham and Bruce Nauman. In the Upper Galleries, audiences will encounter Sehgal's most recent and complex installation 'This objective of that object' (2004).
Coming from a background in choreography and political economy, which both play a fundamental role in his work, Sehgal does not produce tangible objects and is not interested in leaving any form of material trace. Sehgal views visual art as being completely interrelated with society and functioning along identical economic conditions, namely the production and exchange of goods and commodities. He is interested in challenging these conditions by creating works that appear as the transformation of acts and the production of meaning through a transitory situation, rather than as a transformation of solid materials. He does so by fulfiling the conventions of a visual artwork without physically producing anything, assembling meaning through directing people rather than creating objects.
Sehgal effectively designs situations that take the form of
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