This is the Night Mail: Ida Ekblad selects from the Christen Sveaas Art Foundation artist-Richard-Wentworth symbolic or metaphorical

symbolic or metaphorical

Joy Gregory foregrounds themes of cultural memory

New York (2009)

the carcass of an unknown mammal – which also act as symbols of defiance

This is the Night Mail: Ida Ekblad selects from the Christen Sveaas Art Foundation artist-Richard-Wentworth symbolic or metaphoricalThe first of four publications chronicling a display of artist selections from Oslos Christen Sveaas Art Foundation at Whitechapel Gallery, Norwegian artist Ida Ekblad selects extraordinary works on the theme of the night. Inspired by the 1936 documentary film Night Mail with contributions by W H Auden and Benjamin Britten about the night train delivering Britains post, Ekblad takes us on a journey through great masterpieces of 19th & 20th century