I must confess that I like the Tate in St. Ives as much for the architecture of the building itself as for the art it contains.
However, I was particularly taken with this piece of interactive art by Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander. It is a large-scale participatory work called "I Wish Your Wish" and consists of thousands of multicoloured ribbons each stamped with one of 60 wishes that have been gathered from local residents over the last few months. These ribbons cover every wall of a room in the gallery. Visitors are invited to take a ribbon from the installation and tie it to their wrist in the hope that when it falls off, the wish upon it will be granted. In this way the installation encourages a literal movement of the work into the space of the gallery, the town and beyond. When you take a wish, you are also encouraged to write a new wish of your own on a piece of paper which will later be printed onto a ribbon and added to the wishes available to other visitors.
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