Roger Hiorns is on the shortlist for a Turner Prize for his work called Seizure.
Roger spent a year filling an old South London flat with 90,000 litres of liquid copper sulphate, turning it into a blue crystal cave.
From Shape And Colour:
“The scale and production of “Seizure” is ambitious. After reinforcing the walls and ceiling and covering them in plastic sheeting, 80,000 litres of a copper sulphate solution was poured in from a hole in the ceiling. After a few weeks the temperature of the solution fell and the crystals began to grow. The remaining liquid was pumped back out and sent for special chemical recycling.”
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