Time Out’s Alternative Turner Prize Shortlist

Time Out

‘Time Out’s Alternative Turner Prize Shortlist’

2 May 2023

Eddy Frankel

Simeon Barclay at South London Gallery

Darth Vader on a Stanna stairlift, puppets of film characters and a wall of unopenable doors: Barclay’s show at South London Gallery was a dizzying, murky, unapproachable exploration of private spaces, Northern nightclubs that wouldn’t let a young black man in, cultural worlds where the doors were always closed unless you knew the right people. The show as maybe a bit too referential for its own good, but it was still a great idea.