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Tate Britain, LondonIn this astonishing show, the artist has built a life-sized mock-up of a motorway underpass. The result is a supernatural riot that whisks you back to his Wirral youth, with help from music, adverts and old film footage
It’s dark in here and distant traffic can be heard thundering overhead. Mark Leckey has turned some of the ground floor galleries at Tate Britain into a single open space, transforming it into a life-sized mock-up of a motorway underpass in the Wirral, over which thrums the M53 traffic. There’s a concrete ramp and pillars – and the skylights have partially obscured by the supposed underside of the motorway bridge. This is Leckey’s O’ Magic Power of Bleakness, which presents this new work, called Under Under In, alongside two earlier videos: 1999’s Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore, and Dream English Kid 1964-1999 AD, from 2015.
The motorway bridge, which appeared in Dream English Kid, is more than just a stage setting. Growing up close by, Leckey remembers it as a place of mystery as well as escape for neighbourhood kids, a feral no man’s land – and a portal to another world. A familiar trope in children’s literature – from CS Lewis to Alan Garner, JK Rowling and Philip Pullman – the prosaic entrance to an unseen world, a flaw in the fabric of reality, is an enduring fantasy. Leckey experienced something here, and it hasn’t gone away. Continue reading...