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A Needle Walks into a Haystack. Works from the Tate Collection display © Tate Liverpool

A Needle Walks into a Haystack. Works from the Tate Collection display © Tate Liverpool

An unusual assemblage of works from the Tate collection that plays with the idea of a domestic environment. The objects that fill our homes, with which we interact and live every day, are here replaced with artworks that change these objects’ meanings and functions through scale, design, invention and misunderstanding. If this were a home, who would its owner be? What story would bring these objects together? What if everything about a home was filtered through an artist’s vision?

Works from the Tate Collection are by Ivor Abrahams (UK), Helena Almeida (PO), Richard Artschwager (US), Francis Bacon (UK), Rut Blees Luxemburg (DE/UK), Claude Cahun (FR), Patrick Caulfield (UK), Marc Camille Chaimowicz (FR/UK), Giorgio de Chirico (IT), Saloua Raouda Choucair (LE), Joseph Cornell (US), Keren Cytter (IS), André Derain (FR), Sam Durant (US), André Fougeron (FR), Naum Gabo (RU/US), Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (FR), Robert Gober (US), Nan Goldin (US), Spencer Gore (UK), Philip Guston (US), Richard Hamilton (UK), Vilhelm Hammershoi (DK), Susan Hiller (US), David Hockney (UK), Sanja Ivekovic (CRO), George Jones (UK), RB Kitaj (US), Sherrie Levine (US), Linder (UK), Andrew Lord (UK), Lucy Mckenzie (UK), Sylvia Melland (UK), Rodrigo Moynihan (UK), Paul Nash (UK), Gabriel Orozco (MX), Blinky Palermo (DE), Blinky Palermo and Gerhard Richter (DE), Claude parent (FR), Thomas Schütte (DE), Kurt Schwitters (DE), Thomas Struth (DE), Andy Warhol (US), Rachel Whiteread (UK) with additional drawings by Claude parent (Fr).

This exhibition is curated by Mai Abu ElDahab with Stephanie Straine, assistant Curator, Tate Liverpool.