About You Might As Well Ask A Crow, 2016

Exhib­i­tion

Com­mis­sioned by Work­place Gal­lery London

“Have you brought a ques­tion with you? Could you write it down please. I need to under­stand this as if it were my own. Your ques­tion will become my question.” 
Mar­cus Coates.

Dur­ing a sched­ule of private con­sulta­tions, Coates met with indi­vidu­als invited by the gal­lery. He asked them to ask him a ques­tion that bears a par­tic­u­lar sig­ni­fic­ance to them. The ques­tions posed to him vary from polit­ic­al and eth­ic­al to deeply per­son­al. Util­ising the gal­lery space in a man­ner of a con­sulta­tion room, he dis­cussed and worked through the ques­tions privately with each indi­vidu­al by using pro­cesses and forms of reas­on­ing that rely less on con­scious ration­al­isa­tion and more on ima­gin­at­ive exper­i­ence to provide insight. 

Using the inform­a­tion from the con­sulta­tion Mar­cus made art­works as answers to the ques­tions. These videos, paint­ings, audio works, texts and sculp­tures were exhib­ited in the gal­lery for the return­ing cli­ents to view and dis­cuss the ​‘answers’ to their ques­tions with the artist.