Helen Marten, the Fashion Artist: “We Are All Seduced by Brightness and Speed, but Speed Is Running Out”

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The year Helen Marten (Macclesfield, UK, 40) won the Turner, the world’s most prestigious national award for young contemporary artists, there were unanimous praises from critics, something unusual in a sector so much given to disagreement. Her triumph was almost received with relief: the finalist who had generated the most media runrunrun was a gigantic ass with two hands separating the buttocks, work of sculptor Anthea Hamilton. Marten’s sculp…