Artists including Wolfgang Tillmans, Steve McQueen, Marlene Dumas and Robert Gober will show new works in Reading Prison as part of a project inspired by its most famous inmate, Oscar Wilde. The Irish playwright was held in the prison, 37 miles from London, from 1895 to 1897 for “committing acts of gross indecency with male persons”. The exhibition has been organised by the non-profit art commissioning body Artangel. Its co-director James Lingwood said at a press conference that Dumas and Gober will create new work for the show, while McQueen will make an “intervention” in the cells. Works by Roni Horn, Doris Salcedo and Felix Gonzalez-Torres will also be dotted around the imposing Victorian building, which closed as a prison in 2013. Every Sunday, actors will read De Profundis, a letter written by Wilde from prison to his lover “Bosie”, Lord Alfred Douglas.
• Inside: Artists and Writers in Reading Prison, 4 September-30 October
