Eastbourne (dpa) – Jesse Darling has won the prestigious Turner Prize for a work that reflects on the British government’s hostile immigration policy. The Berlin-based artist won the most important British award for modern art at Eastbourne for an exhibition of grids, curved railings, faded British flags and barbed wire. The prize is worth 25,000 pounds (29,160 euros).
The 41-year-old said his two-part work “Enclosures, No Medals, No Ribbons” was inspired by years of austerity, Brexit, the pandemic and the “hostile environment” of British immigration policy. Jury chairman Alex Farquharson, director of the Tate Britain gallery, said Darling’s exhibition partly reflected the state of the country.
The award came on the day British Home Secretary James Wise signed a new migration deal in Rwanda. Asylum seekers who enter Great Britain irregularly must be deported to the East African country, regardless of their origin. You can seek asylum there. It is impossible to return. The Conservative government wants to stop immigration. Opponents criticize the plan as violating international laws.
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