Michael Landy is one of the most exciting and challenging of the artists to emerge in Britain at the beginning of the 1990s and is best known for his work Break Down (2001), during which he publicly rid himself of all of the trappings of his personal life. After creating a meticulous inventory of all his possessions, Landy, who had taken up residence in the window of an empty central London department store, set about systematically destroying them in what he described as a consumerist experiment in identity.
This book chronicles Landy's large-scale installation at Tate Britain, his first major exhibition since Break Down. It is made with and about his father, a tunneller badly injured in a tunnel collapse 26 years ago, it features an exact to-scale replica of his parent's pebble-dashed semi-detached house, the space in which his father has been confined since the accident. The installation explores our understanding of redundancy and disability. Split down the middle to create a front and back façade, video walls communicate the narrative of the home and life played out within it.
This is the first publication to explore the artist's career to date and offers new insight into the work of this dramatic and thought-provoking artist. Essays discuss this new work and its place within the broader scope of his career. Working drawings and photographs of the new installation and illustrations of previous works are also featured.
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