“At 21.20 on Monday 24 September a small group of visitors wearing identical t-shirts sat on the sofas in the Turner Prize exhibition foyer。 They sat in silence for a few minutes and then left the gallery。
“Luke Willis Thompson does not identify as white， he is originally from New Zealand， of Polynesian heritage and is mixed race。 This trilogy of work by Luke Willis Thompson reflects his ongoing enquiry into questions of race， class and social inequality， which is informed by his own experience growing up as a mixed-race person in New Zealand。 These films were made in the shadow of the Black Lives Matter movement and the artist sees his works as acts of solidarity with his subjects。 He links his own position as a New Zealander of Fijian descent， treated as a person of colour in his home country， to that of other marginalised and disempowered communities。 He finds ways of suggesting connections while also acknowledging the limits of what we can know of another’s pain， and how it can be represented。”
