Gilbert & George began their artistic collaboration in the late 1960s. Dispensing with their surnames, they adopted the persona of ‘living sculptures’ in both their work and everyday lives. One of their earliest films, The Nature of Our Looking 1970, shows the artists in fixed poses in the midst of the English countryside, standing earnestly amongst the woodland, or gazing pensively by the riverbank. The film edges into the absurd, suggesting the contrived nature of such images, and the sentimental nostalgia that underlies them.

Join Stuart Comer, Tate Modern Curator of Events and Film, in the Gilbert & George display for a discussion of the film. The talk will be followed by a screening of their 1981 film The World of Gilbert & George in the Starr Auditorium.

Tate Modern Level 3 West
Free, no bookings taken

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