Opening at the Millennium Gallery today, Mark Wallinger’s Threshold to the Kingdom sees the artist play with the symbolism that shows a change in being. Slow motion footage of people arriving at London City Airport shows them delivered from the stateless limbo of international airspace to the sovereignty of UK soil and all it represents.
The film’s spiritual parallels are amplified in its soundtrack, Miserere, a seventeenth-century setting of the Bible’s fifty-first psalm by the Italian composer Gregorio Allegri, sung in the Sistine Chapel for centuries.
Threshold to the Kingdom is at the Millennium Gallery until 4 May.
Entry is free. If you are able to, please donate.
Image: Threshold to the Kingdom - 2000 - projected video installation by Mark Wallinger
