LIFE

Responding to the call

Life, Brian Curtin, Published on 15/02/2012

» The practice of taking objects from everyday life as material for visual art is now so widespread as to warrant no interest in and of itself. From Tracey Emin's bloodied knickers and overflowing ashtrays, as part of her installation My Bed (1998), to Subodh Gupta's sculptures of steel tiffin boxes, we can accept that the gap between art and life is now closed.