Time and Relative Dimensions in Space

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Turner Prize winner Mark Wallinger is one of Britain's most original artists, creating works that combine intellectual curiosity with wide public appeal. This Hayward Touring Exhibition, which opens at the Hayward before moving to Leeds and Swansea, is the first gallery exhibition curated by Wallinger and provides special insights into the artist's thought process and interests. The title and many of the themes in the exhibition take their inspiration from the story of the Russian Linesman, whose controversial ruling in the 1966 World Cup final between England and Germany changed the course of footballing history. For his selection, Wallinger creates an exhibition that investigates many of the issues that have concerned him as an artist over the past 25 years, in particular ideas of boundaries, thresholds and arbitrary divides, whether physical, political, psychological or metaphysical.

Navigating almost 2000 years of history from an early Roman double-headed marble bust of Dionysus and Silenus, through popular 'View-master' stereoscopic photographs and 18th Century trompe l'oeil paintings, to a woodcut by Albrecht Dürer showing a device for rendering objects in two dimensions, the show explores the ambiguities present in our own perceptions and how the lines between fact and fiction are often blurred and manipulated. The show also includes Mark's own work Time and Relative Dimensions in Space (2001), a life-sized mirrored representation of the Tardis from Doctor Who, first shown at the Venice Biennale. Related works in the show will be grouped together, in order to create unexpected dialogues and interpretations........read more here