Fruitmarket in Edinburgh is showing Mike Nelson: Humpty Dumpty: A transient history of Mardin earthworks low rise, featuring work by a British artist known for immersive installations which transform the spaces they inhabit. He will be using Fruitmarket’s Warehouse space as what the gallery describes as the machine room, or driving force, for a major new installation extending through all three spaces of the gallery.
Nelson has been working in the Warehouse space since early May, transforming it into a site of production and part of the piece’s setting, building around two sets of photographs taken in London and a city in Eastern Turkey between 2010 and 2014. The work captures the two cities in flux, guided by their politics and leaders of the time, and seeking to make sense of both sites and their connected experience, through constructed environments, sculpture and photography (see above and below).
The Fruitmarket’s long association with cutting-edge musical composition continues on 9th August with a UK premiere performance of Voiceless Mass at St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh. The Pulitzer Prize-winning composition by Diné/Navajo performer and artist Raven Chacon will be performed by Scottish Ensemble, as part of Edinburgh Art Festival’s 2025 programme, ahead of the gallery’s annual Deep Time series of contemporary music and sound.
