‘Twenty-Six Things’ was based on a simple memory game in which participants are shown a collection of objects, some of which might change position when they look away.
Twenty-six Things, a film by Marion Coutts, David Sayer. Source: Wellcome Collection. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).
The film by artist Marion Coutts was an investigation into the vast museum of artefacts gathered by Henry Wellcome, many of which are on permanent display in our ‘Medicine Man’ exhibition.
‘Twenty-Six Things’ explored common concerns in Marion Coutts’s work: the relationship between sculpture and film, and the generation of meaning in visual perception through effects of repetition, interval and pattern.
About the artist
Marion Coutts
Marion Coutts is an artist working in sculpture and film, and a writer. She won the Wellcome Book Prize in 2015 for her memoir ‘The Iceberg’. She is a Lecturer in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College and lives in London with her son.