Theaster Gates’ labor is his protest
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Incongruously, there is a big yellow fire truck parked outside theWhite Cube Gallery in Bermondsley, the area in southeastern London that is gentrifying at breakneck speed. Inside there is a big red fire truck which, even more incongruously, is hanging from the ceiling, its tires dangling helplessly in the air like the legs of a baby in a highchair. The fire trucks are eyecatching elements in the newest exhibition of Theaster Gates (LF ’11), called My Labor Is My Protest. Read the article…