This is the title of a current exhibition by the Italian
artist, Lara Favaretto, at the Nottingham Contemporary.
In her work, “Thinking Head” [2017], clouds of steam slowly
rise from the gallery roof. The accompanying blurb insists that this vapour is
totally uncontrolled by the artist, that it will move in shifting patterns and
that “the intensity of the steam clouds above will correspond to the intensity
of the thinking happening inside.”
The Contemporary is located on High Pavement and next to
Weekday Cross, an iconic former railway junction, where the Great Central
Railway emerged from the south portal of the tunnel beneath the city centre,
before crossing the Midland station and heading towards the bridge over the
river.
I would hazard a guess that Weekday Cross has not seen so
much steam as this for over half a century. The Contemporary, though, will no
doubt continue to dispense plenty of hot air long after this particular
exhibition has moved on.
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