Saturday, 3 October 2015

Nuit Blanche

As we were out at a show anyway, we took the opportunity to stop in at a few Nuit Blanche installations on our way home. 

We waited in line for about 20 min in front of the Gardener Museum to see the Silent Knight”, a sculpture of an owl made of 50,000 lego pieces by Ekow Nimako. Definitely worth the wait. This installation will be up until the end of the week so you should stop by. 

Inside the Gardener was “The Bone Runners”, a ceramic installation by Nurielle Stern, which was both fascinating and fun. Attendees were encouraged to choose an axe head or spear tip from the many copies strewn along the floor in a pattern that seemed to guide you around the central sculpture. The latter was interesting as it encouraged people to pick them up, study them and really appreciate them.

I was forewarned that Nuit Blanche involved vague directions and lots of line-ups. Agree on the direction part, but this line-up wasn’t too bad – I imagine it is all about the your timing.

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