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The Same for Everyone
The Same for Everyone

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Originally commissioned as part of Aarhus 2017 – European Capital of Culture.

Nathan Coley is interested in the idea of ‘public’ space, and his work explores the ways in which architecture becomes invested – and reinvested – with meaning. Across a range of media Coley investigates what the built environment reveals about the people it surrounds and how the social and individual response to it is in turn culturally conditioned. He is best known for a series of illuminated text works that take found phrases (never written by the artist) and by placing them in new contexts creates a powerful ambiguity of meaning. Here the phrase ‘The Same for Everyone’, which the artist first encountered on a hand-painted sign in Denmark, might be read as either a question, provocation, utopian proposal or a statement of protest.

Sculpture in the City

London

Title

The Same for Everyone

Date

2017

Medium

illuminated text & scaffolding

Accession number

EC3N_SITC_SAME

Acquisition method

on loan to Sculpture in the City, 9th Edition, 2019–2020

Work type

Sculpture

Owner

Parafin

Custodian

Sculpture in the City

Installation start date

2019

Installation end date

2020

Access

at all times

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Sculpture in the City

London, Greater London England

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