SITE is a major exhibition of Mark Wallinger’s work at Baltic which includes three new commissions made especially for the exhibition. Several of the works reflect the artist’s interest in how we name, number or create systems to order things. 10000000000000000 is the title of an artwork which consists of 65,536 stones of a similar size. Each stone is placed on one square of a black and white checkerboard. The title is the binary form of 65,536, which in mathematics, is an example of a ‘superperfect’ number. The artwork seeks to create a visual from of this abstract, mathematical concept. The Other Wall is created from thousands of bricks, similar to those on the outside of Baltic. They have been numbered sequentially by hand using chalk, then rearranged randomly across an entire wall of the gallery space. The random order is one of several million possible variations.

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