Provocative new WWI centenary artwork unveiled at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
(Artdaily.org)

A major new thought-provoking artwork, intended to stimulate critical reflection on the First World War, as well as on museum collecting and care, has been unveiled at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow. I Say Nothing is internationally renowned Scottish artist Christine Borland’s creative response to Glasgow Museums’ World War I collection. The large-scale sculpture was co-commissioned with 14-18 NOW, the UK`s arts programme for the First World War centenary, and made possible through the generous support of Art Fund. I Say Nothing confronts the dichotomy of institutional care and brutality by focusing on the historical use of invalid feeder cups, both to nurse wounded soldiers during World War I and to force-feed hunger-striking suffragettes in the years running up to 1914. It is the culmination of a year-long research residency