Rights architects among nominees for UK`s Turner Prize
(Artdaily.org)

An organisation which recreated the inside of a Syrian prison in harrowing 3D detail was among the four nominees for Britain`s Turner Prize for contemporary art announced on Thursday. London-based Forensic Architecture, which uses architectural rendering software to investigate potential war crimes, used prisoner accounts to build a digital model of Saidnaya prison. Tate Britain director Alex Farquharson announced the shortlist at an event in London, saying all the artists nominated `are tackling the most pressing political and humanitarian issues of today`. Oliver Basciano, art critic and member of the jury said that the four nominees `combine a politicking with a sense of elegance, a sense of aesthetic seduction in their work`. The others include Luke Willis Thompson, who made a black and white silent film portrait of Diamond Reynolds, a woman who live-streamed the immediate aftermath of her African American boyfriend`s death during a traffic stop in the US