“Galleries often literally look away from the world in order to protect these precious items. I don’t want to create work in some weird, separate environment. So I am trying to turn the whole building inside out,” the British artist Martin Creed told us ahead of his take-over of the Park Avenue Armory, which opens to the public on Wednesday 8 June. “The view of the street through the back door is the main piece in the show, which is titled The Back Door. The door is going to open and close.” It may sounds simple, but the installation also includes a retrospective of “all the films I’ve ever made”, Creed said, around 30 works in total, and a new film screened in the cavernous main space. “It’s a film about people with food in their mouths that they coax out, like a child does when it’s eating… For some reason, I thought it really important that my mum was in it. I think it’s got a lot to do with the inside and the outside—I came from inside my mum,” the artist said. To read the full interview, click here.
