Nathan Coley

Nathan Coley’s 'A Place Beyond Belief' unfolds its meaning with each new context – from its origins in a radio story about a post-9/11 train carriage, to Kosovo and on to Kochi where it stands at the edge of the exhibition space, looking on to the city. Considering the words' transmission and alteration through iterations of form and meaning – spoken to written word, radio broadcast to light sculpture – each work becomes a meditation on space, language and their collision. The artist's act of editing shifts registers and contexts to unfurl a series of quietly powerful changes. As the words' meanings shift and unfold in their new, unexpected contexts, so too their settings are reconfigured in surprising ways.