{"id":56422,"date":"2025-06-25T11:06:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T10:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/?p=56422"},"modified":"2025-06-30T15:30:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T14:30:35","slug":"the-cities-inhabit-us-mike-nelson-at-fruitmarket-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/the-cities-inhabit-us-mike-nelson-at-fruitmarket-edinburgh\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cities Inhabit Us: Mike Nelson at Fruitmarket, Edinburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Fruitmarket<\/strong> in Edinburgh is showing <em>Mike Nelson: Humpty&nbsp;Dumpty: A transient history&nbsp;of Mardin earthworks low rise<\/em>, featuring work by a British artist known for immersive installations which transform the spaces they inhabit. He will be using Fruitmarket\u2019s Warehouse space as what the gallery describes as the machine room, or driving force, for a major new installation extending through all three spaces of the gallery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nelson has been working in the Warehouse space since early May, transforming it into a site of production and part of the piece&#8217;s setting, building around two sets of photographs taken in London and a city in Eastern Turkey between 2010 and 2014. The work captures the two cities in flux, guided by their politics and leaders of the time, and seeking to make sense of both sites and their connected experience, through constructed environments, sculpture and photography (see above and below).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MN-6-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Installation from exhibition.\" class=\"wp-image-56424 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MN-6-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Installation from exhibition.\" class=\"wp-image-56424 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MN-6-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MN-6-480x270.jpg 480w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MN-6-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MN-6-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MN-6.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Installation from exhibition.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Fruitmarket&#8217;s long association with cutting-edge musical composition continues on 9th August with a UK premiere performance of <em>Voiceless Mass<\/em> at St Giles\u2019 Cathedral, Edinburgh. The Pulitzer Prize-winning composition by Din\u00e9\/Navajo performer and artist <strong>Raven Chacon<\/strong> will be performed by Scottish Ensemble, as part of Edinburgh Art Festival&#8217;s 2025 programme, ahead of the gallery&#8217;s annual <em>Deep Time <\/em>series of contemporary music and sound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Raven-Chacon-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Raven Chacon\" class=\"wp-image-56423 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Raven-Chacon-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Raven Chacon\" class=\"wp-image-56423 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Raven-Chacon-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Raven-Chacon-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Raven-Chacon-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Raven-Chacon-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artmag.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Raven-Chacon.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Raven Chacon<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fruitmarket in Edinburgh is showing a new installation by British artist Mike Nelson, known for immersive installations which transform the spaces they 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