Liam Gillick (B. 1964)

On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the ICA in 2008, the artist produced Resisted Production. The aim behind the colour screen sculpture is an investigation of the relationship between architecture and social ideologies and how they affect one another. As the artist has elaborated: ‘I remain interested in the potential of art, except I’ve always been more struck by applied modernism than high modernism. It’s partly because of feminist theory and being brought up in the ’70s, with questioning who is speaking, and why, and what authority they’re carrying. But I’m also operating in the gap between the trajectory of modernity and the trajectory of modernism. So what people think is design is not design – it’s my attempt to engage with the trajectory of modernity’ (L. Gillick, interview with M. Brannon, in Interview Magazine, 2005, reproduced at https://www.interviewmagazine.com/art/liam-gillick#/page4).